Solar PV: Is Bigger Better?

We’ve all had the thought: What are the relative merits of utility-scale solar PV vs. the distributed, rooftop version?

To be sure, there are numerous factors to be considered.  In terms of the levelized cost of energy for each kWh, no one doubts that the utilities can afford to build (or buy) power at a scale that is unachievable at the local level.   But what about the value to the local economy? The cost of power transmission lines?  The further entrenchment of monopolistic interests over those of the individual?

IMO, the author does a good job in the article linked above.