This is no different than the college loan program, the savings and loan fiasco, the building of homes in the 9th Ward(N.O.). People get on board and there’s no stopping it. Home owners are guilt tripped into solar just like their kids are guilt tripped over college. Feel good wins over business sense.
Ronald Reagan would end all subsidies. The economy would do better but no one will notice. The environmental hecklers would still be out there.
Big buildings(government/corporate) have big solar panels. Tell me it;’s profitable without subsidies.
I once asked a city councilman who was all in on trying to put panels on city hall, Why doesn’t the nearby Wal-Mart have panels all over it? The Target? And on down the line for large numbers of large nearby commercial buildings?
He had no answer. Of course the answer is that there is no economic reason to do it, other then marketing/virtue signaling.
Ultimately the council voted no, thankfully. I think he did, too. Or it may have not even gotten to a vote, just dropped. Good outcome in any case.