Not true. Net metering incentives distributed generation, reduces transmission infra costs, but of course is ideal when the utility backfills with cleaner firm generation (California has no domestic coal generation and imports minimal amounts of coal fired power per ElectricityMap.org). You export excess solar when overproducing, and then can pull that kWh back from an energy source that can be stored (batteries, fossil gas, hydro).
High level, high renewables penetration destroy the economics of slow throttle generators like coal and nuclear, but are ideal to pair with fast throttle fossil gas, which will then face stranding as utility scale battery manufacturing and deployment ramps. Batteries are key (and an expectation of some amount of tolerable clean energy overproduction), we’re just haggling over who is paying for them (retail electric or utilities).
Like EVs (high end vehicles paid for manufacturing capacity ramp for lower value vehicles), wealthy people who buy solar and receive tax benefits not only generate clean power for themselves, but also export clean power to the grid and drive system efficiency improvements that will trickle down to those of lesser means with regards to rooftop solar (or community solar for folks without space for roof or ground mount solar).
https://www.brookings.edu/research/rooftop-solar-net-meterin...
https://cleantechnica.com/2022/09/11/why-rooftop-solar-power...
https://www.seia.org/initiatives/solar-cost-benefit-studies
High level, high renewables penetration destroy the economics of slow throttle generators like coal and nuclear, but are ideal to pair with fast throttle fossil gas, which will then face stranding as utility scale battery manufacturing and deployment ramps. Batteries are key (and an expectation of some amount of tolerable clean energy overproduction), we’re just haggling over who is paying for them (retail electric or utilities).
Like EVs (high end vehicles paid for manufacturing capacity ramp for lower value vehicles), wealthy people who buy solar and receive tax benefits not only generate clean power for themselves, but also export clean power to the grid and drive system efficiency improvements that will trickle down to those of lesser means with regards to rooftop solar (or community solar for folks without space for roof or ground mount solar).
https://www.brookings.edu/research/rooftop-solar-net-meterin...
https://cleantechnica.com/2022/09/11/why-rooftop-solar-power...
https://www.seia.org/initiatives/solar-cost-benefit-studies