David Schieren, chief executive of Empower Solar, an Island Park installer of solar and battery systems, took issue with the new “benefit” charge.
“I do not think any tax should be placed on solar customers unless the utilities do the hard work of modernizing rate structures for all customers that reflect market prices and can therefore leverage market forces to accelerated deployments of solar…”
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