Solar coexistence

Someday, a team of Harvard economists will win the Nobel Prize for devising a two-tiered utility rate plan that separates the fixed costs from the fuel costs so utilities can bill roof-top solar customers for production and distribution services while roof-top solar customers reduce or eliminate the fuel costs portion of their bill.

Their elegant creation will be hailed for allowing utility companies and roof-top solar owners to coexist, and usher in the dawn of a new age — the Age of Distributed Energy.

But until that day, let’s watch the utility industry pour a can of gas on a stack of cash, and set it on fire. And they say solar is expensive.

This story was originally published October 29, 2016 at 2:00 PM with the headline "Solar coexistence."