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ATLANTA – Six years ago, the General Assembly passed legislation allowing Georgia property owners to use third-party financing to install rooftop solar panels at their homes and businesses.
Now, representatives of solar installers and their environmentalist allies are warning the momentum the industry has built since 2015 could grind to a halt unless the state Public Service Commission (PSC) orders Georgia Power to lift a cap on a pilot rooftop solar program limited to 5,000 customers. The program is about to hit that cap because of an unexpected surge of interest.
“It’s a very popular program,” Don Moreland, policy chairman for the Georgia Solar Energy Association and owner-operator of Solar CrowdSource, told the PSC during a recent hearing. “[But] once we hit this cap … it is going to cause the rooftop market to completely crash.”
Lacking other incentives, rooftop solar customers need to bank their joules
Adapted from an interview by Judith Lewis Mernit | Mar 4 2021
Seth Gunning, sales director at Creative Solar USA | Illustration by Joe Morse
When you re organizing for change, an important principle is that you should always be trying to organize yourself out of a position. During my time as a Beyond Coal organizer with the Sierra Club in Georgia, we got my utility company, Cobb Electric Membership Corporation, to cancel plans to build two new coal-fired power plants. We worked to elect new leadership to the cooperative and turn the utility into a solar energy leader. After that, I realized it was time to move on.