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Minnesota aims for a grand solar bargain

Solar tariffs: The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission approved a new Value of Solar methodology as alternative to net metering. An analysis by Sara Bergan, energy law attorney at the business law firm Stoel Rives, and Jon Wellinghoff, partner in Stoel Rives and the former chair of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in the US.

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pv magazine

08 May 2014

Minnesota recently sought to strike a grand bargain between its electric utilities and solar interests. Nationally, these parties have been increasingly at odds over so-called net metering, a process by which an eligible utility customer-generator can feed electricity back to the grid and use that production to offset its own electricity usage and associated charges. …

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