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House approves bill adding power-purchase agreements as a rooftop solar option

Utah House of Representatives · February 22, 2016
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Summary

The Utah House on Feb. 22 passed House Bill 244 to permit power-purchase agreements (PPAs) for rooftop solar, creating a third option—alongside purchase and lease—under which companies install and own systems and sell power to homeowners. The bill exempts municipal utilities and will take effect after a PSC cost-benefit analysis.

The Utah House on Feb. 22 approved House Bill 244, adding power-purchase agreements as an option for residential solar customers and creating new contract and consumer-protection rules for rooftop systems.

Representative Gibson, the bill sponsor, told colleagues that HB 244 "looks to offer a third option in the form of a PPA or power purchase agreement." Under the proposal, a solar company can place a system on a homeowner's roof, maintain the equipment and sell the homeowner the electricity under a long-term contract —…

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