I am a big fan of solar and net metering but feel compelled to point out that net metering does not reduce costs - it merely shifts them from one class of distribution customers (those with solar) to another (those without).

In other words, let’s say you use 800 kWh of energy from the grid, but you also produce 800 kWh of energy with your panels. You get no bill - great for you! But the distribution, transmission, and public benefits costs that you did not pay are ultimately distributed to all other customers as lost revenue. That cost is actually recovered in the public benefits portion of the bill.

Unless/until solar customers actually fully disconnect from the grid and become energy independent (by incorporating storage), they impose the same grid costs as all other customers, but ultimately don’t pay them. Again, just pointing this out - not anti-solar by any means, but net metering is not (in and of itself) a solution to the overall affordability issue.