There are subsidies specific to residential solar that aren’t available to other forms of solar. Essentially, homes without solar subsidize the ones with solar by paying higher electricity rates. I don’t think that this is sustainable in the long run. For there to be more residential solar, electricity rates will have to go higher and higher. (Ironically this improves the economics of subsidized residential solar.) At some point, I think that voters will ask for lower electricity bills. Eventually, politicians “ought” to reduce residential solar subsidies.
(The analysis in this post is superficial. I apologize in advance.)
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