Utah's National Park Electric Corridor.

LenSatic wrote:
Also, our grid-tied neighbors are now being assessed fees by the power company because the company refuses to earn less money.

Pat,

It's so many early adopter folks having individual solar systems that's causing power companies to have a smaller customer base to earn income from - while those ex-customers having local solar probably still have a portion of the grid system close to their residences that may be needed yet for years to service other nearby customers not on their own local systems.

I'm not convinced that local residential solar/wind systems can compete against the economies of scale that will naturally come from the huge solar/wind farms, from the huge (eventually) energy storage systems, and from the huge inverter systems for the solar power component from the farms (wind based energy from the huge farms may not require DC to AC inversion).

I'll bet that solar panels, battery banks, and inverters at - or close to - every living area will not, in the long run, even be possible ... let alone be the most efficient and Earth-friendly way to provide non-fossil power to billons of people world-wide. This will become more evident going forward as the bulk of the world's population continues to move into higher and higher density living situations.