Renewable energy: solar roadways

With solar roadways (1) waiting to happen (thank you Damian McNeill for the suggestion) and with reports that residential solar systems are surging, why do power companies resist it so much (2) (3) instead of adapting and embracing the change?

(1) http://www.solarroadways.com/
(2) http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-09/solar-panels-leads-to-less-demand-for-electricity/5586036
(3) http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-08/qld-providers-trying-to-block-solar-from-grid-groups-says/5579874

Climate change: Al Gore teams up with Clive Palmer

According to this article Clive Palmer and Al Gore agree on a policy which is supposed to be based on climate change.
http://www.abc.net.au/environment/articles/2014/06/25/4033168.htm

I wonder what deal went down behind closed doors when a high profile climate change activist and a mining magnate emerge from a meeting to confirm that they agree on something which the mining magnate had previously said he flatly opposed.