Solar panels are loss-making for utility companies. If you have them on your roof you're not only not consuming their electricity and not paying their margins, they might have to pay you.
Worse this usually happens during the times when they make the most profit (daytime/summertime).
They have every incentive to try and kill solar - which is, in fact, what they've been trying to do (google for 'ALEC solar' to see how).
Maybe where you live. But most places in the world, power generating utilities are publicly owned and price regulated and the incentive is to reduce costs. No corporate conspiracy here, and still no solar panels.
Here in Australia power utilities are private but regulated. They still want to kill solar because their networks aren't designed to cope with it - the cost structure is all wrong.
They already are trying to stop/slow personal solar. Look up "net metering laws". No conspiracy at all, its in the open. They have no incentive to reduce cost, they have incentive to stay alive.
Couldnt remember the good information I had on the subject at this but a quick google search gave me an article thay covers some of the basics.
I've visited a number of countries twice in the space a few years (e.g. Myanmar) that have very obviously have had a huge number of solar panels put up in that period. First none at all - then everywhere.
It's most noticeable in sunny areas that have no grid at all or one that is very poorly functioning.
Worse this usually happens during the times when they make the most profit (daytime/summertime).
They have every incentive to try and kill solar - which is, in fact, what they've been trying to do (google for 'ALEC solar' to see how).