&quot;Why is it on the solar owners to pay for all of their energy storage but not on the coal power plants to capture and store their CO2 emissions?&quot;<p>Because those are two separate issues.  One has nothing to do with the other.<p>The story here is that a solar customer wants the government to force the power company to store his&#x2F;her energy for them and the grid is not designed for that.  The power company pays a wholesale rate to all its suppliers.<p>I see this as a push to get better storage technology developed which will benefit far more people.  The solar company is being disingenuous and I bet there books are not quite as positive before this event as they let on.<p>I like home solar and will probably install it when I decide to buy a home, but I will install a storage system and a cut off so I can use my panels without the backfeed to the grid incase of power outage.