“Was it mandatory to install??”
Only if you want electricity in your house...it’s comepletely voluntary you see..
There is no “right to electricity”...
/sarc
Buying electricity is a privilege!
I guess that would depend on if your electric company is a monopoly or an open market. Without competition and with certain companies (ie. Duke Power) fighting little independent start ups.....then it should absolutely be voluntary. If we have a choice of companies in a country which electricity is the norm and we pay for it...then we get to choose.