Not really. You're not borrowing electricity, you're making more. A better analogy is getting a 2nd part time job to pay some extra expenses that crop up.
That analogy works too.
My point wasn’t that it’s about borrowing. My point was that you get what you need now but it will cost you later. It’s only a temporary fix - which is why your analogy works too.
“You’re not borrowing electricity, you’re making more. A better analogy is getting a 2nd part time job to pay some extra expenses that crop up.”
Actually, what you are doing is paying to put a large, ugly structure on the roof of your home that has an expected payback of about 15 years. It is only the large taxpayer funded subsidies that make it economically viable.