Australia will soon have the same scheme - pay to feed into the grid. Like dumping your waste (I enjoyed your post on that, btw) - luckily, when that becomes a thing, I can set my inverter to not export to the grid.

I see it as energy sovereignty long term. Like having a herb garden, or chickens that can give you eggs. The only thing I can harvest from my garden currently are chillis, but we have a pomegramte, mandarin and mulberry tree brewing.