Solar panels don’t raise regular utility rates — and might even lower them

In the early days of solar, there was some concern — nay, terror — of how it could destroy utilities and make power more expensive for all the plebes sans solar panels. A confession: Even Grist partook in such fearmongering: Solar power and other distributed renewable energy technologies could lay waste to U.S. power utilities and burn the utility business model, which has remained virtually unchanged for a century, to the ground.http://grist.org/climate-energy/solar-panels-dont-raise-regular-utility-rates-and-might-even-lower-them/