Given that investment in renewables has managed to destablise the grid (which may yet suffer a death spiral), I'm considering installing solar panels and battery, to protect myself from blackouts.
Absent equipment failures, blackouts are caused when there is insufficient generation capacity to meet demand. At that time, the wholesale market price reaches its cap of $14 per kWh, which is rather more than the derisory 12 cents or so one receives for a feed-in.
I'd probably turn my solar panels off, or at least direct my system not to feed-in (assuming it's capable of that), during such periods because I'd rather forgo the pittance they pay than supply power at 1% of its market value.
Better would be to organise a boycott - get large numbers of solar panel owners to do the same. Since this would lead to further blackouts, the regulator would be forced to the table to ensure that owners got a fair priced at such times.
But how to organise it?
Sylvia.