Laura Belin – New bill is “clear attempt by MidAmerican to monopolize the sun in Iowa”

Summary:
A new bill backed by MidAmerican Energy would devastate the ability of Iowans to install solar panels for their homes or businesses. House Study Bill 185 would undo a longstanding policy of net metering, which “allows residential and commercial customers who generate their own electricity from solar power to feed electricity they do not use back into the grid.”Iowans served by monopoly providers MidAmerican or Alliant Energy have been able to use net metering since the 1980s, under rules adopted by the Iowa Utilities Board.In recent years, MidAmerican has periodically sought to subvert net metering in various ways. Environmental advocates have been concerned the policy would become the next target for Republican lawmakers who destroyed Iowa’s decades-old, successful energy-efficiency

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Mike Norman considers the following as important: alternative energy, artificial scarcity, economics and politics, Iowa, MidAmerican Energy, Monopoly, solar power, special interest legislation, sustainable energy

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