&gt;Net metering means that the power company is required to buy electricity at retail rates from their customers instead of wholesale rates, which puts quite a burden on them. Why should they have to buy at a higher rate?<p>It always amuses me when people complain that we&#x27;re not being &quot;fair&quot; to monopolies.<p>The whole set up isn&#x27;t fair. There&#x27;s no market discipline on the transmission side, so there&#x27;s no point in transmission being privatized at all.<p>It&#x27;s clearly not politically feasible (yet) to push for nationalization but there&#x27;s no reason to indulge their whinging either.