Stephen Holmgren

Repealing the enabling law takes this choice away from communities, penalizes residents who invested in solar in good faith under existing rules. Repealing this law would create fairness issues as: This law has been in place since the 1970s, when the Nation’s energy security was threatened during the Arab Oil Embargoes; and Fossil fuel energy sources get tax breaks all along their production chain, and so this is just giving solar parity with fossil fuels. Who Is Impacted Homeowners with solar could face high property taxes Towns and cities would lose local control over their tax policy Future solar adopters would face new financial barriers Local solar businesses would see reduced demand Ratepayers statewide lose the grid and price-stabilizing benefits of distributed energy This bill does not lower taxes overall. It shifts costs and creates new disincentives for clean energy investments that benefit the public.