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House committee reviews ‘Renewable Energy for Communities’ community-solar program in H.289
Summary
The House Energy and Digital Infrastructure Committee walked through language in H.289 that would create a Renewable Energy for Communities program, direct utilities to solicit distributed renewable projects, and charge the Public Utility Commission with program design and oversight, including equity and community participation goals.
The House Energy and Digital Infrastructure Committee on March 14 reviewed language in H.289 that would establish a Renewable Energy for Communities program to solicit distributed renewable generation through retail electricity providers.
Ellen Tchaikovsky, Office of Legislative Council, told the committee the bill would “establish the Renewable Energy for Communities program” and require the Public Utility Commission (PUC) to develop program principles and a solicitation framework that retail electricity providers would use to contract with community projects.
The committee was shown that the program would target small, local distributed generation, defined in the bill as resources less than 5 megawatts and capable of connecting to the transmission grid.…
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