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Renewable Energy Incentives Survive Lobby Attack – Developers, landowners urge Montana PSC to reject small-power rule change
With most sessions now wrapped up or waning, renewable energy backers now brim with triumph and relief as they eye a legislative scorecard tilting their way.
For renewable energy supporters, this was supposed to be a year of statehouse setbacks.
"States Cooling to Renewable Energy" read the headline of a March Wall Street Journal story reporting that more than a dozen legislatures were weighing proposals to roll back or abolish mandates that utilities purchase a certain amount of renewable energy. Mandates are in place in 29 states and Washington, D.C.
By Jim Malewitz, Staff Writer
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Developers, landowners urge Montana PSC to reject small-power rule change
Developers of small renewable-power projects in Montana on Monday urged the state Public Service Commission to reject a rule change they say will sink any future projects.
At a three-hour hearing before the PSC in Helena, they said the change will simply enable NorthWestern Energy to build or buy whatever electric-power project it wants and ignore buying from small, independent projects that can benefit consumers and provide development in rural Montana.
By MIKE DENNISON IR State Bureau
