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Utilities and solar energy: Emerging legal issues

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  • Miller, Alan S.

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As recently as 1978, discussion of utilities and their relationship to solar energy systems consisted largely of hypotheticals and speculation. Since that time the subject has undergone dramatic changes. Several substantial federal programs have been adopted, notably the Residential Conservation Service and the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act. Several states have initiated new programs. California, for example, has directed its largest utilities to finance 375,000 solar water heaters over the next three years, while North Carolina has ordered the state's utilities to finance the creation of an independent agency to promote the use of renewable energy. At a policy level, there is a growing consensus that utilities should undertake at least some conservation and solar programs. The questions have been narrowed but not resolved; utility programs will move forward, but their scope and content are still ill defined. This paper summarizes legal issues and decisions on utility programs and solar energy, with emphasis on recent developments. Some effort has also been made to identify issues that have not been discussed at length elsewhere.

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  • Miller, Alan S., 1982. "Utilities and solar energy: Emerging legal issues," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 7(1), pages 127-137.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:energy:v:7:y:1982:i:1:p:127-137
    DOI: 10.1016/0360-5442(82)90070-6
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