Solar grid tie installations expected to fall due to shrinking Fed Tax Credti next year/ 2020?

I have grid tie system for my home for the last ~15 years.

And it is more about the state public utility commision rules (and having a location with good sun/no shade) than the system costs/installation issues these days.

Back when it cost $10 per Watt for installation 15 years ago, a large state and federal subsidy was nice... Add that the utilty had to pay retail price for the excess power generated--What was not to like.

Now, the panels themselves cost $0.50 per Watt, the racking $1 per Watt, and the inverters are still $0.50 per Watt or less... Just labor and building permit fees (which is not getting any cheaper). Last quotes I saw a few years ago was around $5 per Watt installed.

And we have a race between states/federal/regulatory agencies removing the GT Subsidies (paid by taxpayers and non-GT solar utility customers), and a race to dismantle centralized power generation (fossil, nuclear, and large hydro/dams) and even a new movement to outlaw natural gas in new construction (Berkeley California--Going back to all electric homes/apartments/businesses--Except those folks that can buy indulgences for NG connections from the very government that outlawed the connections in the first place "for the environment")--GT solar has little overall market penetration for real energy generation and nothing yet to make a 24x7 stable grid--Not sure what to talk about. GT Solar works, can save money, still need good sunny location for solar panels, and a reliable grid with legal utility connection/rate plan.

Our utility PG&E (basically northern California is going through chapter 11 bankruptcy over the California Wildfires) is now warning folks that they will lose power for hours to days during windy summer weather... (much of the fire hazard is due to poor wildlands fuel management and building homes in forests and brush lands without managing fuel loading. Add a utility that probably had less than stellar equipment/system maintenance and had been forced into near bankruptcy a generation ago by the heavily regulated "deregulation" of utilities that gave us Enron and all the rest. Toss in a gas pipeline explosion a few years ago from an old/improperly constructed pipe...

For us, better start looking at whole house gensets if you want to have stable electric power. (God knows where we will get the fuel for our gensets in another generation in California).

-Bill "I give up" B...