>At least in Hawaii there are a lot of independent energy producers, so your statement is completely false that they only want to sell their own power. They're

>At least in Hawaii there are a lot of independent energy producers, so your statement is completely false that they only want to sell their own power. They're not doing that because they want to. >They don't want to buy back power at the same rate they sell it They don't want to buy power at all. Certainly not if they have existing capacity that they would rather use. Definitely not if it is a future threat to their bottom line. >People are also free to get batteries Batteries are a much more inefficient way of using power than selling it to your neighbor. >They probably would solve it, but they know that the cost of solving that subtracted from the rate they pay their energy producers is low enough that people will complain and it's not worth it. Let's not pretend they're not solving the problem for our benefit. This is about their profits. >I'm not sure how you can mandate they solve a problem so people that want to go "off grid" don't have to buy their own batteries. Because they are a monopoly and a utility. We mandate they solve problems because otherwise they will just milk their monopoly for all its worth and the only party that benefits from that is them.