LePage still fuming over PUC's solar net metering decision
Gov. Paul LePage still isn’t happy about the Maine Public Utilities Commission’s Jan. 31 decision changing the way home solar generating facilities are treated under Maine law, which he says falls far short of what’s needed to remove the burden net metering puts on non-solar electricity customers.
Maine Public reported Friday that LePage said the three-member commission — Mark Vannoy, Carlisle McLean and R. Bruce Williamson, who are his appointees — should resign.
“I will be very honest, I have said it before, if I could fire all three of them, I would,” he said. “I would ask them to resign in a heartbeat.”
In his press conference, LePage told reporters he had no confidence lawmakers, who will be considering net metering proposals in the current session, will do any better.
“There is no path to victory,” he said, according to Maine Public. “All I have up there is the ability to stop bad legislation — I have no ability to pass good legislation.”
In their net metering decision last month, PUC commissioners ruled that existing solar customers and those signing up before 2018 will be grandfathered at the current net-metering policy for 15 years, but those who enter the program after that will get reduced credits.
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