The problem addressed by this thread was that some members took issue with the fee that Dominion was going to charge. They felt like there was no way a fee like that could be justified but that idea is completely wrong.
My main argument has been that a power demand based fee is inappropriate. In fact, I think it makes a mockery of everything you've been saying about how charges should be allocated according to where the associated costs come from. The demand charges that Dominion is now going to charge the solar customer are arbitrary: they have no particular relationship to the size or energy production of the solar system, and will not be fairly distributed among multiple solar system owners, to say nothing of those that don't own solar. (Basically, if I am a residential customer who is not charged for kW, I can run my demand way up and pay nothing extra. But if I happen to own a solar system, I could pay a fortune for the same behavior.)
Now, there are other reasons why I think, generally speaking, that extra fees that discourage solar are a bad idea. Reasons having to do with global climate catastrophe and resource depletion. But I think those issues are, and should remain, outside the scope of discussion in this forum. So I have refrained from pushing those arguments in this thread. I realize that it all costs money and not everybody is convinced it is worth paying for. But Ggunn was absolutely correct a few posts back when he said "What it really boils down to, IMO, is what the utility is trying to accomplish." And I am still convinced that what Dominion is trying to accomplish isn't merely to be fairly compensated, but rather to quash the adoption of solar per se. And I am not convinced they have a good reason for that, nor has anything that has been said in this thread changed my mind.