{"id":9201,"date":"2024-02-15T15:09:33","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T16:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=9201"},"modified":"2024-02-26T17:36:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T17:36:46","slug":"wmc-testifies-in-opposition-to-cost-shifting-solar-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=9201","title":{"rendered":"WMC Testifies in Opposition to Cost-Shifting Solar Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/issues\/wmc-testifies-in-opposition-to-cost-shifting-solar-legislation\/\">https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/issues\/wmc-testifies-in-opposition-to-cost-shifting-solar-legislation\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WMC\u2019s Senior Director of Environmental &amp; Energy Policy Craig Summerfield testified in opposition to legislation (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001SaYn7_HDyiK2pvZvimX6A_4xLIyZLiNE41mVWmds1vG4JQ06cjlnAVtYXZQPQF_qIGSHRDkSrKHMFHypJ_53y1XMzxk6IsnTzMManoClRN-x4nS5E79ts_E24142xohoBE1OaLqoQ38c6edfOSB-jXi-LqpLFkU6y6gmDMmKYr32sdVFw7qU1xf-uAUJ4Yqs6qQNUZp5pSuVVJZ0sSMHTw==&amp;c=LbuXKr5yD7ps07exqbSMm75UNhPqqiMS0oM6dClmRp70CGFuYQhYoQ==&amp;ch=zZH-ayy1HUt6sngzSG5tNwDJr4Igdml6inOH5vspVu1wtAWNZvAc0w==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AB 258<\/a><\/span>) to establish new requirements for so-called \u201ccommunity solar\u201d programs in Wisconsin. The bill would require investor-owned utilities to purchase power from small solar arrays within the utility\u2019s existing service territory at a rate determined by the government.<\/p>\n<p>WMC opposes this legislation because it would shift the costs of the solar garden onto other ratepayers, including businesses. It would also force utilities to buy energy from an intermittent power source regardless of the needs of the grid.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota\u2019s community solar program is expected to cost ratepayers an additional $329 million in 2024, or an estimated $7 per ratepayer per month.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001SaYn7_HDyiK2pvZvimX6A_4xLIyZLiNE41mVWmds1vG4JQ06cjlnAVtYXZQPQF_q2y79DDthVSw2SxCsr4KcqcchTcpyHYPb0QQnGA9z9KhTXWrFZpbS8_uejRSM3DRqnipVj38xF29sdkM8MinpEEb8ozuW2xbRWzqdFrBRL7I2lur-FfMZh2WICGNtFToj1Rr26mwGPRWH8ZQ4U6hy_asjwhiVnVMTwzw8Ug0SnDQZyT65APiH7xRpS9eMRKKr604kolVUHu5JB7dRgxlbuQzsgYw_ehe4ItYNL9dMgIs=&amp;c=LbuXKr5yD7ps07exqbSMm75UNhPqqiMS0oM6dClmRp70CGFuYQhYoQ==&amp;ch=zZH-ayy1HUt6sngzSG5tNwDJr4Igdml6inOH5vspVu1wtAWNZvAc0w==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to read WMC\u2019s testimony<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/issues\/wmc-testifies-in-opposition-to-cost-shifting-solar-legislation\/\">WMC Testifies in Opposition to Cost-Shifting Solar Legislation<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\">WMC Wisconsin&#8217;s Chamber <\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/issues\/wmc-testifies-in-opposition-to-cost-shifting-solar-legislation\/ WMC\u2019s Senior Director of Environmental &amp; Energy Policy Craig&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9202,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9201\/revisions\/9202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}