To be clear, the issue here isn't that they want to stop the upstart solar revolution (although I'm sure that's a factor too), but the bigger problem of grid sp

To be clear, the issue here isn't that they want to stop the upstart solar revolution (although I'm sure that's a factor too), but the bigger problem of grid spikes due to tie ins. Solar comes in two flavors: Battery and grid tie. When you tie your solar setup to the grid, technically you can make money back from the power company for selling your excess power and as an added benefit, you don't need to keep a bank of (expensive, heavy and space consuming) batteries. During the night, you can draw power from the utility in lieu of drawing from a battery bank, but the idea is that you can buy back most of the excess power you "sold" to the grid during the day. This is the "net metering" they're talking about. Battery and solar is how I'm planning to go with my cabin setup so I won't have to deal with this problem. But the subsidies escalating the issue is really the fault of the law makers who enabled it. It would have made far more sense to promote off-grid for energy since that doesn't put the burden on power companies, but grid tie is being sold and promoted as a much cheaper panacea for both power costs and environmental benefits.