Your Dec. 29 editorial “ Nevada’s Solar Flare ” targets the solar-leasing companies, calling them “overgrown solar babies,” and there is some truth to that. But many of us bought our systems outright. I make about one-third of the energy I use; the rest I buy from the utility. Nobody subsidizes me; I pay the same price for electricity that all customers do. Consider this analogy: If I use less gasoline than the guy with the big SUV, should I be charged extra to pay my “fair share” of the fossil-fuel infrastructure? Doesn’t big oil have refineries and trucks and gas stations, just as big electric has transmission, delivery and grid maintenance? Every commodity has an infrastructure, but where else do we attempt to parse the infrastructure and charge separately for it? If the utilities decide to penalize solar customers by changing the net-metering system, some of us will […]