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Residents urge Bowling Green utility to drop rooftop-solar surcharge and expand local renewables
Summary
Public commenters at the Bowling Green Board of Public Utilities meeting urged the board to remove the city's electric facilities surcharge for rooftop solar (Rider E), expand community-solar options and use distributed renewables to boost local resiliency during extreme weather.
A group of Bowling Green residents pressed the Board of Public Utilities on the city's surcharge for rooftop solar, arguing the fee discourages installations and undermines local resilience during storms.
Joe DeMar, a Bowling Green resident at 517 South Main Street, told the board the current policy places a monthly surcharge of $4 per installed kilowatt on rooftop solar systems and asked the board to "end the electric facilities charge added to the bills of solar panel owners in Bowling Green." He said the city pays 7.5' per kilowatt-hour for solar owners' excess generation, sells that power at full retail (13.13'/kWh) and — based on his examination of three…
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