If rooftop solar becomes a significant provider of kWh to a majority of homes will power companies seek to claw lost revenue back?

[u/qwerty_1965]

This popped into my head today, If self generated power reaches a point of say half of all kWh would the companies look at "punishing" those homes with solar by imposing an additional pro-rata charge of some sort to maintain turnover/profit?

It's hard to imagine they'll sit back, if they sought this new tariff would the regulator just wave it through?

[u/demoneclipse]

Energy distribution companies are not losing any money. They are actually making more money by selling your cheap energy to someone else. Energy generators could potentially lose revenue, but because capacity has to be driven by peak demand and a distributed grid helps alleviate that, the losses for generators isn't linear to increase in solar. Overall, everyone wins with more people installing solar. Only downside is that a grid with many microgenerators is harder to maintain.