Committee backs 60-day window to let some solar customers transfer renewable certificates

House Energy and Digital Infrastructure on May 9 took a straw poll to concur with a Senate amendment to S 50 that would give certain net‑metered solar customers a one‑time opportunity to transfer renewable energy certificates (RECs) to their utility.

The amendment creates a limited look‑back: “The Public Utility Commission shall allow [a] customer who owns a net metering system that was commissioned between 01/01/2023 and 07/01/2025 to change the customer's decision to retain the attributes once,” legislative counsel Ellen Jegowsky told the committee, reading the amendment’s text. The window for customers to submit a request to the Public Utility Commission (PUC) is Sept. 2, 2025, a period described in committee discussion as roughly 60 days.

Why it matters: the change aims to give customers whose systems already came online a single chance to reverse or adjust an earlier choice about keeping RECs — a choice that the committee’s underlying bill otherwise makes available only prospectively. Committee members and witnesses said the provision responds to a small number of customers who…