MN HF1262

Utilities must provide customers' electricity usage data within 10 days of a request when the data is relevant to interconnecting a qualifying solar facility, including monthly usage totals, time-of-use data, and demand charge information.

Private entities (homeowners associations and community associations) are prohibited from restricting roof-mounted solar energy systems on single-family detached dwellings and multifamily attached dwellings where the owner is solely responsible for the entire building's maintenance and insurance.

Private entities may require solar installations to meet reasonable conditions including licensed contractor installation, roof peak limitations, indemnification agreements, insurance certificate holder status, and removal of systems for common element repairs, provided restrictions do not reduce energy generation by more than 10 percent or increase costs beyond 20 percent for solar water heaters or $1,000 for solar photovoltaic systems.

Solar energy system applications must be processed like architectural modification requests with a mandatory 60-day approval/denial deadline; applications are automatically approved if not denied within 60 days unless the delay results from reasonable requests for additional information.

Declarations and bylaws of common interest communities must comply with the residential solar energy restrictions provisions of this law.