Dive Summary:
- Senate Bill 843 would have given renters and others a chance to be included in money-saving solar action, but the bill died before ever even getting voted on.
- Supporters of the bill blamed Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) and California Edison, two of the three major California utilities whose customers would have been eligible for the program, for stalling legislation in the Assembly Committee on Utilities and Commerce.
- PG&E said it opposed the bill on the ground it would “burden nonparticipating customers when they already face other challenges.”
From the article:
Community solar power got left out in the cold by the the politicians in Sacramento.
A bill that would have given renters and others who don’t have a roof of their own a chance to get in on the money-saving solar action -- as they now can in Colorado under similar legislation -- died without a vote late last week when the California State Legislature adjourned for the year. ...
