UTILITIES TELL GOVERNOR SOLAR COST, PERFORMANCE KEY IN NEW BILLS

Utility and industry representatives are laying out several guiding principles they want the administration to consider when potentially drafting legislation requiring solar units on new homes, including that the systems be proven to be cost-effective and meet performance standards. Environmentalists are concerned some of the principles may complicate future legislation and the governor's "million homes" initiative that failed to pass this year. The industry's "principles" to guide future discussion of solar system mandates were laid out in a Sept. 29...