” People with no connection to the power grid”
Fine.
People who are connected sell their excess to the company at a fascist government determined rate that all other customers must make up for (subsidize).
A fair rate would be significantly below the wholesale rate the utility pays it’s reliable wholesale suppliers.
Unreliable power is worth significantly less.
Left to the market the distributed, intermittent electricity produced by homes would be valued at practically nothing.
The biggest subsidy of home PV is mandating that the utility’s other customers must pay outrageous prices for the excess produced- even as ridiculously much as the retail price!
This article is obfuscation with it’s focus on the grid cost.
True. Another reason for rates going up in many cities is that of natural gas interests recently pushing the government to shut down some coal-fired plants and pushing up the costs of others.