It’s not some “elite” cabal. It’s transparently the utility companies and adjacent industries. They fight this unless subsidies for their “increased costs to the grid” are covered. It seems in local areas I’ve seen this play out it always comes down to the fact they want the public to pay for the grid upgrades they should’ve been doing in the first place.

I think from what I’ve read online and heard from others this is a pretty common if not nearly universal thing happening when it comes to the pushback against rolling out residential / urban solar at scale