Huron Valley Group News: Michigan Legislature Wants to Penalize Solar Installations

Saturday, November 26, 2016

Michigan Legislature Wants to Penalize Solar Installations

The Michigan Senate has passed energy bills and while they are better than the originals bills including keeping net metering, they now include a “grid access charge” which could be used to make homeowner solar systems uneconomic. The Senate energy bills now go to the Michigan House of Representatives. Please contact your State Rep and let him or her know that a “grid charge” is a really bad idea. It is a solar tax to discourage residential solar systems.

See Michigan Energy Policy –Time for You to Act

2glrea.org/solar/mi-sun

About the Huron Valley Group

The Sierra Club is a non-profit, member-supported, public interest organization that promotes conservation of the natural environment by influencing public policy decisions--legislative, administrative, legal, and electoral.

The Huron Valley Group is part of the Michigan Chapter of the Sierra Club, which includes all of Michigan. The Huron Valley Group itself includes most of the Huron River watershed, including Washtenaw, Lenawee, and Monroe counties.

Purpose

To explore, enjoy and protect the wild places of the Earth; to practice and promote the responsible use of the Earth's ecosystems and resources; to educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment; and to use all lawful means to carry out these objectives. Since its founding in 1892, the Sierra Club has been our nation's most effective defender of wilderness and the environment.The Huron Valley Group represents Washtenaw, Lanawee and Monroe counties.