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PSC approves WPL community solar expansion with LMI and homebuyer carve-outs, 12-month reservation
Summary
The Public Service Commission approved Wisconsin Power and Light’s revised community solar tariff to reserve capacity for first-time homebuyers and low- and moderate-income customers, extend reservation windows to 12 months, and require specific outreach language; the commission kept existing deposit and fee rules but left pilot status unchanged.
The Public Service Commission of Wisconsin on Aug. 28 approved modifications to Wisconsin Power and Light Company’s community solar pilot tariff that reserve blocks of capacity for first-time homebuyers and low- and moderate‑income (LMI) customers, require initial outreach language about solar variability, and lengthen the reservation period for reserved blocks from six months to 12 months. The commission voted unanimously to approve the application with those conditions. The changes respond to a commission condition from WPL’s previous rate case (docket 6680-UR-124) that required WPL to file a TE docket expanding access to LMI customers by Dec. 31, 2024. Chairperson Summer Strand told commissioners the filing was responsive to that directive and that the revised tariff “is substantive and responsive to the commission’s directive in their previous rate case.” Commission staff and intervenors had flagged five areas for possible modification — eligibility,…
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