Utilities themselves may well take an interest in this, if not now, at solar prices not much lower than todays: Nobody in the utility industry (either generation or distribution side) really likes peak loads. They only occur for part of the day; but electricity doesn’t store well at all, so you basically have to size your distribution system to cope with them and have a bunch of swiftly-variable-power peaking capacity, which tends to burn the more expensive fuels, sitting idle in case it’s needed.
With AC use being one major residential/commercial/low-energy-industrial peak (that conveniently often coincides with nice sunny weather), distributed capacity that isn’t too expensive and allows you to shave the peaks is a bonus for almost everyone.
Expect more adversarial interactions if the plan involves displacing a bunch of (generally long lived and cheap) baseload units, or going mostly off-grid and occasionally taking advantage of grid power, priced to include transmission costs for an all-grid customer, only when it suits you.
