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Sponsors pitch community energy pilot to allow third-party projects, local permitting and phased rollout
Summary
Representatives Hoops and Ray introduced House Bill 303 to establish a community energy pilot that would enable limited third-party distributed generation projects, preserve township permitting authority and require decommissioning protections.
Representatives Hoops and Ray introduced House Bill 303 in a first hearing before the House Energy Committee, describing a community energy pilot designed to expand distributed generation through third-party private capital while preserving local permitting authority and consumer protections.
Sponsors said the pilot would define community energy projects as single facilities using solar photovoltaic generation or, alternatively, resources such as wind, biomass, landfill gas, hydroelectric power, natural-gas-fired generators, fuel cells and energy storage systems. Sponsors emphasized projects would be limited…
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