Re:The price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months
by Retric on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @02:28PM
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The concern runs deeper than this. You can go off grid with solar for minimal additional costs, so they fear people will simply disconnect from the grid. Couple this with for profit electric company's and bribing/lobbying is the 'solution'.
Of course, the correct solution isn't to compound one perverse incentive (out-of-sync fixed vs variable pricing) with another (ban on solar or refusal to buy); it's to change to a system of decoupled maintenance and power pricing.