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California Denies Bid from Home Solar Company to Sell Power as a ‘Micro-Utility’

Inside Climate News · By Emma Foehringer Merchant · last updated
The proposal would have allowed the construction of new housing developments with solar and energy storage.

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

California utility regulators last week rejected a home solar company’s application to form “micro-utilities” in the state, which would have allowed it to power small, newly-built communities with solar and energy storage and deliver electricity with new power lines.