I don&#x27;t see where the argument against retail (possibly minus a small amount) comes from.<p>Effectively, they&#x27;re deleting load from close to the end user from the utility&#x27;s books. If that load hadn&#x27;t been deleted, the utility would have charged retail pricing in order to generate it.<p>The small negative adjustment from retail would come from the fact that the utility is still servicing the solar user as a retail user. So still needs to charge a set amount for admin costs &amp; <i>transmission</i> (NOT generation) infrastructure.<p>Paying them wholesale is pretty ridiculous, and is a blatant abuse of the fact that they&#x27;re a monopoly enshrined in law. If the state decides that you can&#x27;t sell your electricity to anyone else because they anoint a utility, then that utility should absolutely be banned from exploiting that position to compensate solar generation less than it could.<p>If utilities can&#x27;t balance their long-term amortizations of recent&#x2F;new plants, then the state government can step in an reimburse them over the top for the disruption.