re: "prohibiting solar" -- many utilities are able to convince their public utilities commission or legislature that it's in the best interest of the state to prevent competition to protect their natural monopoly.
This forced us to increase the panel array size by another 25% to 30% to make sure we had more coverage, increase the battery storage we needed, and increased the breakeven point to more than 30 years.
We decided to not do it. For a world that needs more renewable energy (I sort of hate that term) politicians work awful hard to make it not happen.
As world + dog starts driving EVs, businesses will want to offer them power charging at their venues to provide a convenient way to top up. That requires cheap power and solar is a great way to get that. The collective power of lots of businesses and consumers demanding their right to access to solar will win ultimately. It's winning everywhere else. Of course there are some places where it is taking a bit longer than it should. But better late than never.