Here&#x27;s the problem with Net Metering: suppose you have two neighbors with exactly the same sunlight conditions:<p>1. A person whose house is large, inefficient, and uses a lot of electricity<p>2. A person with a small efficient house.<p>If both of these people buy the exact same solar panels and generate the exact same amount of electricity, then the utility has to pay #1 a <i>lot</i> more money than #2. (If you really want to ramp up the rhetoric, call #1 rich and #2 poor, and ask why the rich guy gets paid more for his solar power)<p>How does this happen? In order to encourage conservation, we have different price tiers. The more electricity you use the higher the price per usage is. When the solar &quot;rolls the meter backwards&quot;, it&#x27;s rolling away the high-cost tier from the wasteful guy, and the low-cost tier from the conservationist.<p>We want to encourage solar generation, so it makes sense that solar generators should be paid more per kWh. Net Metering is the Wrong Way to accomplish this goal.