[Fat Charlie]

Actually, residential solar is a home improvement. Being able to say "this house produces $X worth of electricity every year" certainly changes the asking price compared to the otherwise identical house next door that produces $0 worth. Not taxing that imprivement is a local subsidy that comes at the expense of everyone else in town- the ones who can't afford to turn their houses into free electricity.

I work in what is basically retail. I don't buy things at retail, and I wouldn't expect the power company to buy electricity from me, a residential retail customer, at the retail rate that it sells to me at. Net metering is an amazing deal for homeowners and we shouldn't complain that the surplus that "The Fat Charlie Power & Light Co." produces gets bought at a wholesale rate.