less regulation is the answer; it always has been.
The problem i see with that is that it assumes only the industry will be regulated, when in all likelihood it's the individuals who will be. Large organizations will
always have more effective input in 'democracy' than thousands or even millions of un-organized individuals, which means that if nothing
precludes them from doing so, large grid operators will just have laws/code changed to protect them from homeowners having 'excessive freedom', such as the freedom to not be a customer. This is already mostly true in a lot of places where you basically can't get permits for this or that without having a grid connection, which means if you don't get a grid connection you kinda can't legally get anything else, which means if the utility doesn't like you you are de facto outcast from polite society.
It has been this way forever with cars. If you look at how much the emissions of cars have been reduced as a percentage, vs the amount they have been reduced by grid operators, it is out of all proportion. The reason is that even though everyone buys cars, not everyone will show up when it counts and put their collective weight onto their government representatives. Meanwhile, big players will pay one guy, or a handful of guys, to show up every damn time and even when it's not time, play exactly by the rules they get paid to know, and make things happen in that government body. They will develop backdoor access that does not formally exist. They will violate the law in only the unprovable ways, to exert influence. There will be a public comment period during which noone comments because noone realizes anything is happening, and costs will be pushed onto whoever didn't fight back. So we're all driving around with thousands and thousands of dollars of emissions equipment on our cars putting out 0.5% of what they did 50 years ago and
still being guilt tripped for global warming while a newer coal plant is.. uhh.. "much" cleaner than an old one. Yes, much.
Oh and turns out i have to keep this antique POS coal plant running for an extra 2 decades because.. uhh because trust me
and by the way do you really want to call my bluff? Hmm? Grid operators are state-sanctioned monopolies in the best of times and they can and will get worse.
The same thing will happen with solar. It will be held to standards that drive up its cost and unfairly hold it to a higher standard of safety and greenness than actual grid production, while the grid producers continue to catch state-sized forests on fire and leave people without power for weeks while talking about 'acts of god'. LOL