@mhoye I don't see a majority of the voter base supporting the changes required to achieve this (here). That's all.

I've worked for a utility company for a couple years and they required mandatory training on how the utility works, the financial hurdles, the regulations, etc.

So in the upper Midwest there's a company called ATC that owns the transmission lines. The power company does not operate or service them; they have to pay to use them. Those costs are recouped through your utility bills (likely one of the standard flat rate fees, can't remember off hand).

If enough people are installing solar, who is maintaining that infrastructure? Someone's gotta pay for it. So it would have to be part of a grid connection fee. As soon as you start charging people to backfeed into the grid they'll just disconnect as it won't be worth it. People aren't going to get paid more than that fee because there will be so many people backfeeding.

And now we're talking about the risk of negative energy prices which causes further problems for the generation plants. They gotta pass those losses on to the customers they have, so now the bulk energy customers like factories that can't be off grid have higher energy prices which raises the prices of the products.

This is all incredibly complicated and messy. Unless you live in a society that will gladly nationalize the entire grid this does not seem like a realistic scenario to me.

tbh I absolutely want solar and battery but I'd be 100% off grid and have a generator for emergencies.