[KorematsuFredt]

Simple policies are easy to understand, easy to comply with and have more predictable externalities and second order effects.

The PG&E poppycock is hard to understand. Even I do not fully understand their BS like net metering.

Just make solar panels cheaper so that a lot of people see benefit in buying them to meet their energy needs and lower the energy costs in a way it benefits PG&E too.

If I understand correctly, installing a better + solar panels might solve a lot of these problems for some homes.

[mchannon]

Solar panels are already almost free, under $1/W.

If you neglected the labor costs of installation, along with the inverters, racking, permitting, etc., they'd pay for themselves in _under a year_ in PG&E territory, which lists a 43c/kWh rate on their website. And that's before any tax or feed-in tariff incentives.

"Better" (efficiency) is completely irrelevant to this math problem.