It's not just in the US that this sort of thing happens. Sitting here in sunny South Africa, where we have regular rolling/controlled blackouts (load-shedding) because the utilities simply aren't able to generate enough electricity to cover all the demand. You'd think they'd incentivize people generating their own solar like crazy, but they don't. They actively punish people that push back to the grid with onerous requirements. The dirty little secret is that a lot of us have "old" "analog" electricity meters, which can literally go backwards when you push to the grid, which many do.