The utilities here charge me a connection fee, regardless of my meter.<p>I get all of my energy from a roof top solar system but to stay on the grid I have to pay a connection fee which in my mind covers transmission costs and infrastructure.  Being that it&#x27;s a utility I can see them charging for that stuff, some how, either by a fee or by arbitrage between wholesale and retail costs, that seems reasonable.   It radically changes the value of solar though.<p>If you can sell energy at wholesale prices what&#x27;s the argument for restricting your ability to buy it at wholesale?  Could you buy it from a different provider and just use the utility to transmit it?