MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • April 11, 2021
A 2019 Maine law expanded the scope and incentives in a program that promotes solar energy development, a policy called net energy billing. Now the provisions of the net energy billing law are under review by the Legislature. At issue is whether the incentives that have attracted a stampede of solar investment to Maine are too generous and should be trimmed. Rep. Seth Berry, D-Bowdoinham, said, “Maine’s transition to clean energy has only just begun,” he said. “There will inevitably be growing pains along the way, as there is during any period of rapid transition. Our job as policymakers is to make sure this transition is as rapid and affordable as possible, while leaving no one behind.”