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Bill H.155 would raise standard-offer cap to 20 MW and restore community solar
Summary
Representative Garrett Torrey introduced H.155, a companion to S.57, to raise the state's standard-offer program cap to 20 megawatts annually, exclude combustion sources, and reinstate a 10% allocation for community solar (about 2 MW per year).
Representative Garrett Torrey introduced bill H.155 to the House Committee on Energy and Digital Infrastructure on Feb. 21, proposing an increase in the state's standard-offer program cap to 20 megawatts per year and the reinstatement of community-scale projects.
Torrey described the measure as "an extension and reinvention of the standard offer program," noting it is a companion to S.57 pending in the Senate and aims to continue a program that he said "helped drive low cost renewable deployment in the state." The bill follows last year's change to the Renewable Energy Standard (H.289 of 2024), which updated the state's renewable…
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