3/17/2010 | |
For the second year in a row, the general assembly was unable to agree on an improvement in Indiana’s sickly net metering policy. In the last 5 years, we have seen each and every state around Indiana legislatively enact into law renewable energy policy that stands up to comparison with the ‘best practices’ of states like California and New Jersey. Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, and even Kentucky have enacted policies that range from Renewable Energy Portfolio Standards to Advanced Renewable Energy Contracts, and all of them have expanded net metering. Despite this apparent disadvantage for Indiana when it comes to policy in the Midwest, we have still managed to become one of the nation’s largest areas of centralized commercial wind development. But centralized commercial wind development is where the good news ends. Distributed Generation (the idea that anyone can have a small renewable energy system to power their local needs) has suffered consistent demise at the Indiana General Assembly. In the last six years, we have not passed a single piece of legislation that directly encourages the development of Indiana based distributed generation resources. | |
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