ME LD32

Repeals Maine's net energy billing laws (35-A MRSA §3209-A, §3209-B, §3209-C, and §3209-E), eliminating the program that allows customers to receive bill credits for delivering electricity from their own renewable energy facilities to the grid

Prohibits the Public Utilities Commission from requiring transmission and distribution utilities to offer net energy billing to customers

Removes property tax exemptions for solar energy equipment connected to net energy billing programs, limiting exemptions only to solar equipment where all energy is used on-site

Narrows the definition of "distributed generation resource" to facilities with 1-2 megawatt capacity that either participated in cluster studies or received ISO-NE transmission approval by April 30, 2024

Presented by Senator Guerin of Penobscot with 5 cosponsors; referred to the Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology