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Solar industry warns SB 15‑60 would “decimate” Connecticut solar market; utilities and advocates push other reforms
Summary
At a lengthy Finance, Revenue & Bonding Committee hearing, solar developers and installers told lawmakers Senate Bill 15‑60’s changes to net metering and the public benefits charge would sharply reduce rooftop solar deployment and cost jobs, while utilities and consumer groups argued the bill could provide meaningful bill relief if restructured.
Solar contractors, developers and the Connecticut chapter of the Sierra Club told the Finance, Revenue & Bonding Committee that Senate Bill 15‑60, if enacted in its current form, would sharply reduce residential and commercial rooftop solar in Connecticut and threaten thousands of local jobs.
Steve Stefanou of Manchester (testifying for the town) and multiple residential installers — including Tim Schneider (Earthlight Technologies), Ed Merrick (Trinity Solar), Joshua Kekak (Solar Ship Corp), Steven Pelton, and others — told legislators the bill’s proposals to change net‑metering credits and to shift major program funding away from a per‑kilowatt‑hour public benefits charge would make many solar business models…
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