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Comment by spywaregorilla

This is harder than folks give credit. Folks want to leverage their own solar power for cheap, clean power; but they still want the availability of the grid for those moments when the sun isn't shining and the batteries are dry. The grid is expensive, and these folks are trying to avoid paying their share because the pricing scheme assumes that availability is highly correlated with actual usage.

The more self reliance individual customers have, the harder it is for generation plants to stay profitable. Break equilibrium stuff by adding more solar and seeing how it gets sustainably fixed might not be a terrible idea, but it is hard.

I don't know anything about the specifics of CA.

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