By Stephen Lacey | GreenTech Media
The debate over how to value distributed solar is not new. Utilities and solar advocates have been negotiating changes to net metering in California, the leading U.S. solar market, for years.
Consequently, proposed changes to solar crediting policies have spread quickly to other leading states where utilities are starting to deal with a lot more solar on the grid.
But something curious is happening in the industry as 2014 unfolds: states such as Kansas, Louisiana and Utah — all of which have extremely small solar markets — are also considering changes to net metering.
So why are lawmakers and utilities worried about the policy if it’s had virtually no impact on ratepayers in these states?
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