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This is Climate 1.

I'm Ariana Brocious, in for Greg Dalton.

Many people have opted to install solar panels on their homes,

but utilities aren't always supportive.

The primary concern that a lot of electric companies have had is that the people who are using the grid maybe even more intensely

because now they're doing that two-way flow of electricity aren't helping to pay for the larger cost of the system.

Solar advocates say distributed generation is essential to decarbonize our world.

We are going to increase our electricity consumption significantly, and it's actually really critical

from a cost management perspective for all of us that we start to reduce our demand on the grid.

So who holds the power with rooftop solar?

Solar, unlike other energy sources, allows individuals to take the future into their own hands.

Everything else you had to ask the utilities to do the right thing.

Solar power has become one of the cheapest sources of electricity and is viewed as a cornerstone of our clean energy future.

But it wasn't always that way.

Adam Browning started the Renewable Advocacy Organization Vote Solar in 2002.

I asked him to recall how solar was viewed by utilities and the public 20 years ago.

You know, solar, I think, was seen as this potentially promising energy source that could create electricity

without any emissions. But I think there was a healthy dose of, it was kind of a hippie pipe

dream. It was just way too expensive to really make a dent on our country's energy future.

And while it sort of sounded nice, it wasn't something to really take

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