SEIA sent letter to Nevada Assembly to pass pro-consumer net metering Bill

Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), sent a letter urging a Nevada Assembly committee  on Commerce and Labor to pass a pro-consumer net metering bill (AB 270). That measure would return the state to its previous net metering policy, which allowed all homeowners to sell excess electricity back to the utility and solar jobs to flourish.

SEIA said in the letter that prior to 2016, Nevada had been a national leader in distributed generation, more specifically rooftop solar. However, in late 2015 with the dissolution of net metering, we have seen a tremendous implosion of what was a vibrant, growing industry. The PUCN itself stated that ‘the (NEM) Final Modified Order all but crushed the rooftop solar industry in Northern Nevada, reducing the booming industry from 983 applications by residential homeowners and small commercial businesses in Sierra Pacific Power Service territory in 2015 to 41 applications in 2016. ‘

The letter went on to point out that “multiple national solar companies essentially stopped doing business in Nevada, or put plans on hold to expand to Nevada, and we are seeing long-term local Nevada solar companies close shop or change business plans to install technologies other than solar.”

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