The Rachel Maddow Show / The MaddowBlog has the article Kochs, conservative allies align against solar.

This is arguably evidence of an energy breakthrough: up until fairly recently the right never really cared enough about solar power to move aggressively against it.
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The power industry argues that net metering provides an unfair advantage to solar consumers, who don’t pay to maintain the power grid although they draw money from it and rely on it for backup on cloudy days. The more people produce their own electricity through solar, the fewer are left being billed for the transmission lines, substations and computer systems that make up the grid, industry officials say.

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As for whether industry claims have merit, the L.A. Times report also reported, “The arguments over who benefits from net metering, meanwhile, are hotly disputed. Some studies, including one published recently by regulators in Vermont, conclude that solar customers bring enough benefits to a regional power supply to fully defray the cost of the incentive.”

Not to mention that having a distributed power supply is more robust in the face of catastrophes than having a concentrated one. Or not to mention that utilities being a regulated monopoly is enough insurance against insufficient capital to pay for the infrastructure.

Is it a coincidence that the Kochs and conservatives have taken such notice of solar energy and the rise of the Bundy incident discussed in my previous post The Case For Cliven Bundy?  The fact that right wingers could connect a defiance of the federal government, an attack on Harry Reid, and an attack on the solar industry must have been irresistible whether or not any of it was true.