You will see this more and more. The problem is solar power, and that it creates an opportunity for companies that use a lot of electricity to avoid using the g

You will see this more and more. The problem is solar power, and that it creates an opportunity for companies that use a lot of electricity to avoid using the grid at all. Just have your local solar power plant. The grid "isn't designed for that". Which should be correctly understood. It's not (the main problem) that the grid can't physically deal with that, it's that it's laden up to close to 100% debt on the assumption that it would never lose customers. Government, however, depends on the grid, and so can't let it go bankrupt. So ever more people will need to pay the grid for power EVEN if they don't use power. Australia pioneered that, but it will become reality sooner or later everywhere.