Thank you, this seems obvious to me now that you said it but it hadn’t occurred to me before. I still dislike the way this is being handled as it effectively discourages solar but am at least now sympathetic to the counter argument.
Yeah - they shouldn't use it as a tax while still in the early adoption phase.
But as costs of having power delivered to your home are rising even as the generation cost falls, it is important to have some kind of support for low income families.
There could be ways to lower the cost of the grid maintenance, but there's always going to have to be a connection fee.
