Created separate interim rates for solar-plus-storage and solar alone, pending a final net metering successor to be developed.
Provided a template for how to consider the various types of value that solar systems provide to the grid and society.
Ordinances address height, encroachment and setbacks, and aesthetic requirements, and permit qualifying systems by right.
Required utilities to collaborate with inverter manufacturers to develop a reasonable self-certification process for advanced inverters even before national standards were established.
Incentivizes local governments with grants and coordination assistance to meet four of ten designated high impact actions, one of which is the adoption of a Unified Solar Permit process.
Requires all 515 local governments to create an expedited, online solar permitting process for rooftop solar installations under 10 kW.
Established the first standardized solar permitting law in the United States.
Discusses solar access, permitting, net metering, interconnection, building codes, financing, and other subjects.
Includes a tier for useful thermal energy from the production of electricity, and demand-side management resources.
Allows resources that produce a measurable and verifiable displacement of conventional electricity resources to also qualify as eligible resources.