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.
I completely understand, and if we could, we definitely would. Unfortunately, it's not financially feasible here, also because we live in an old rental house with a thatched roof. But while we can't install solar panels, we do have room for trees, and this year we've had a few apples from our own garden, as well as raspberries, gooseberries, mulberries, strawberries, black currants, and blackberries. Now we still have runner beans, tomatoes (snack tomatoes), vine tomatoes, and hot peppers growing. At least, we hope they're hot. Lol. Sadly, our summer has truly come to an end, and we're back to full-blown autumn weather.
Glad you enjoyed the post I wrote on people throwing waste everywhere. I don't enjoy seeing it ... LOL.