&gt;So they are trying to stem the tide of the rich leaving by making them continue to bear the cost of subsidizing the poor.<p>No, they&#x27;re trying to prevent competition. They run power plants too, and they&#x27;d rather you bought electricity from them rather than sold it to them.<p>That&#x27;s why none of the power companies are advocating just removing the implicit environmental subsidy and allowing power to be sold back to them at wholesale rate.<p>They just want solar panels gone, period.