If you change a faulty light switch, will they make you install solar?
They do this in NJ with Cesspools, if you need a plumbing permit and still have a old cesspool style septic, you are required to change it out to a modern septic system. Or no permit. So people just do the work themselves and don’t bother with a permit.
If you sell a property in NJ with a cesspool you or the buyer is required by law to replace it before contract or 30 days after sale if the buyer is going to replace it.
This is just the first step. Eventually they will probably require solar be installed whenever a property is sold. Or whenever any building permit is pulled for any repair / maintenance/ remodeling.
Camels nose in the tent, foot in the door, whatever metaphor you like, that’s what’s going on here.
Actually I like the idea of solar. Somebody I know just got solar, and has seen great savings on utilities. But the issue here is, it should be everyones freedom to choose solar if they want, or not if they choose to decline. The issue is that this is being force fed on us.