Who pays for cheap solar?
The poor.
“In California, households installing solar are disproportionately wealthy (as well as disproportionately white), so the result is clear: Net energy metering shifts costs onto the poor.”
https://www.latimes.com/specialsupplements/story/2025-08-12/hidden-cost-of-rooftop-solar-subsidies
"With systems costing $15,000 to $25,000, this model has created two distinct classes of energy consumers: those who can afford solar, and those who cannot, with around 60 per cent of Australian households locked out of solar"
https://www.afr.com/companies/energy/the-hidden-crisis-behind-australia-s-solar-boom-20251119-p5ngpe
