Oklahoma Solar Panel Surcharge

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Oklahoma solar panel surcharge.

An solar forward employee installs solar electric panels on a rooftop in california. Oklahoma could be the first complete defeat for solar advocates in their fight against utility efforts to recover costs lost to dg distributed generation use writes utility dive. What s new for 2020 breaking news for 2020. Last year arizona added what amounts to a 5 per month surcharge for solar customers a.

Oklahoma city ok april 22 2014 some oklahoma residents who install solar panels or wind turbines on their property in the future are likely to get hit. Last week with little fanfare and even less debate oklahoma lawmakers. This was followed by another solar energy center near covington oklahoma. Jun 11 2020 a bill that would allow regulated electric utilities to impose a surcharge on customers who install rooftop solar panels or small wind turbines passed the oklahoma house of representatives on monday.

It sets up a process at the oklahoma corporation commission to establish a separate customer class and monthly surcharge for distributed generation such as rooftop solar or small wind turbines. Not only does the state lag behind in production but a lack of community solar laws and policies are believed to contribute to fewer solar panels on oklahoma rooftops. Net metering survived attacks in colorado and kansas and vermont recently increased its policy in a bipartisan effort. We were the first utility in oklahoma to offer universal solar power to customers with the mustang energy center.

One of the issues is the. Read on to find out why you rarely see any solar on any rooftops here and compare the policy performance and solar energy jobs here to other states. Mary fallin signed the solar surcharge bill into law on monday permitting utilities to charge an extra fee to any customer using distributed power generation such as rooftop. Now two new five megawatt farms are being built in southeast oklahoma in davis and durant.