If someone is disconnected from the grid he should never have to pay anything to an electric utility. However anyone who choses to remain connected to the grid, even if he uses no electricity, should have to pay his share of the installation and maintenance of the infrastructure. It would only be extortion if one were forced to be connected.
Then buy your own residential transformer and connections, also a service contract inclusive of component replacement to cover outages.
All this is rolled into historical residential service as a percentage of the rate per kilowatt hour. More recently, the installation/ maintenance of service is partitioned as a separate item to reflect the average costs incurred per connection. Kilowatt power delivery is an optional extra cost, once connected.
Every person whom contracts for electrical service pays to fund repair services and replacement hardware, in return for reliable delivery. Remote feed-lines above a set distance costs extra, in addition to the customary connection fee.