I&#x27;m not sure what the subsidies story looks like for rooftop solar vs grid solar, so I&#x27;m not sure if that is distorting the distribution atm.<p>In some places the cost of maintaining a distribution network may be higher than maintaining a distributed installation&#x2F;maintenance network (eg Hawaii seems about right), but I don&#x27;t see that being the case in urban areas.<p>So I feel like it&#x27;s more likely that (well run) utilities will pick up solar+storage when it becomes cost competitive, and prices should fall, causing the &quot;savings&quot; obtained from rooftop solar to disappear.<p>Particularly, if storage tech does fall as this article predicts, I don&#x27;t see why it wouldn&#x27;t just replace peaker plants directly.