: A New Roadmap for the Lowest Cost Grid––confirms that prioritizing distributed energy is the most cost-effective clean energy strategy for everyone connected to the electric grid, including non-solar owners. And that’s just the electric customer benefits. Widespread distributed energy adoption also means more distributed economic impact, more employment, and reduced environmental impact. Unfortunately, electric utilities (especially the private companies with shareholders) aren’t interested in this trifecta of benefits. For many, like Dominion Energy, rooftop solar means reduced demand for their product (think fossil gas power plants) that threatens their profits. The most important thing we can do in 2021 energy advocacy is to acknowledge the fundamental tension between a monopolized market structure and an equitable clean energy future.