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PUC chair outlines low‑income and market models for community solar; committee urged to avoid rushed design
Summary
Public Utility Commission Chair offered two models for community solar: a low‑income targeted program and a market (utility‑run or developer‑run) model; he urged careful design to avoid large administrative costs or an undue cost shift to nonparticipants.
The Senate Natural Resources & Energy Committee on March 12 heard preliminary ideas from Chair Margaret (Tim) McNamara of the Public Utility Commission on potential successor programs for group net metering and community solar.
Two broad approaches: McNamara offered two distinct approaches and urged the committee to treat them separately rather than trying to force a single program to solve both problems.
1) Low‑income‑focused community solar: a targeted program with a clear eligibility definition (for example, based on area median income) and built‑in privacy protections for applicants. The chair suggested…
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