Exactly. It’s easy to blame the utility companies but they were not allowed to operate their business in a way that makes sense. All those pie in the sky mandates are a overhead cost with little or no benefit. If a technology is not fiscally sound and needs subsidies it should be abandoned or left to those who want to pay it’s freight not placed on the backs of people by Government.
I worked in the power industry for three decades. Utilities stopped promoting engineers to the top executive ranks and started putting “woke” lawyers in CEO positions. Utilities never were ones to fight mandates as long as the investment t could go into the rate base. They usually accepted some small amount of kookiness because they had bigger fish to fry like getting an over-budget, late nuke plant completed and operating. But it got far worse in the 90s when those new execs embraced wholeheartedly all the kooky ideas.