Even if individual homes can sustain themselves on solar power, there are many homes and even more businesses that cannot. Even if people are storing power in

Even if individual homes can sustain themselves on solar power, there are many homes and even more businesses that cannot. Even if people are storing power in batteries and charging them up for later use when power is cheap (determined locally) you still need the utility to be that conduit to get the power from the (distributed) sources to the (distributed) consumption. Can the existing grid handle this kind of workload? Yes, if it is managed well and controls are in place to prevent delivering more power into the network than it can handle.