I don&#x27;t disagree but it is a bit more complex. But first, allow me to dispell the myth that solar cells don&#x27;t generate power when it is overcast, they do. My panels typically run at 52 - 58% of rated power when the sky is wall to wall clouds. Granted that is a big drop in production it isn&#x27;t 0 and can be planned around.<p>The &quot;discussion inside the discussion&quot; here is money. As inverter and management technology has gotten better, it becomes possible for a single family home, in the lower 48 states, to locally generate perhaps 95% of its annual power requirements, and to supplement that last 5% with onsite generated power using propane or methane.<p>In such a configuration, the consumer&#x27;s on going payments are either lease payments or a maintenance contract on the gear to keep it running. Not some utility company. And that means that you cannot distribute the cost of &quot;big&quot; energy projects across a wide base of payers (as a utility, you can still do that with taxes). And that leads us too ... Commercial power.<p>While you and I might be able to live off grid, your typical multi-story office building or apartment can not. They don&#x27;t have the square footage available for panels, and they generally don&#x27;t have the space for back up power equipment. So they still need generators and transmission lines and a &quot;grid.&quot; And because the cost of that grid is distributed across fewer people, their costs are <i>significantly</i> (I&#x27;ve seen estimates of 10x) higher. That raises rents, and the cost of goods, and generally puts a real crimp in any economy. Not to mention the power utility is now just another botique supplier to these guys and so loses a lot of scale it had before.<p>The shifting balance of power (pun intended) is going to cause a lot of disruptions and cost shifting. At the end of the day it could be the thing that puts a lot of brick and mortar stores out of business.