traditional fossil fuel monopolies have 12 tax breaks in the tax code, including no permitting for the installation of an oil Derrick anywhere, nor do they have to eliminate(or disclose) any chemicals they inject into land anywhere in the country(including any neighborhood you live).
Solar has one tax credit that only comes from an actual sale of a system, an actual market has to exist to receive any tax credit, unlike many of the "in perpetuity" tax breaks utilities get. ITC is limited and has an actual expiration date, utilities don't.
Fossil fuel monolpoly utilties are among the 4 most subsidized industries in the entire United States, yet still get a guarenteed rate of return on a rate payer base that can't deny their services. The fossil fuel utilties have mininial service innovation over its 100 year existence and has a historical rate inflation of average of 5% annually.
Solar industry has dropped costs precipitously and have done so on the premise of innovation and scale which has not even scratched the surface on its iteration cycle, not including storage, smart inverters and smart home applications and networking potentialities(aggregation).
To not say fossil fuel, traditional utility monopolies are not far, far more subsidized then solar, you have to be completely lying to yourself and in desperate need of a timeout in the corner.
Take away all utiltity subsidies, including guarenteed rate of returns and a hostage customer base and solar a decade ago would have undercut them in their sleep.
As a matter of fact we could lower every amercians income tax, while getting a grid that is 100% technologically superior and efficient then what we have today.
