An Epic Battle Between Solar Firms and Power Utilities Could Leave One Side Unplugged

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18. Nothing in a govt budget is subsidized by "rich and poor alike"

...unless you intend regressive taxation.

OTOH, the poor and everyone else get what is on balance a rate cut as the supply for expensive peak hours is loosened up by solar. I don't believe the anti-solar folks have run a comprehensive analysis of their own on this, and perhaps you've ignored the posts here on this subject. It utilities want to break out fees for grid maintenance, that's fine, but by the same logic solar generators will want a discount if/when their distribution results in reduced need for transmission.

Storage will be an added expense for sure, but that's no reason to stop solar + wind investment now.

...your little privatized paradise...

That's cute coming from someone who not only refuses to acknowledge that a large chunk of solar is on government buildings or utility-owned, but who also makes scarcely a peep about the business culture of the essentially private US nuclear industry (which belies your posturing).

Perhaps a surge in socialist politics can rescue your vision of a nuclear future; I can't think of another way the US can become like France. Its more likely you will continue to see wind + solar surge instead. And as for France and the rest of the planet, I encourage them to increase public ownership or co-determination of wind, solar and other renewables, from manufacture to energy production.