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PSC gives large solar farms a second chance

Mar 01, 2015 12:02 am
Larry Rulison in the Albany Times-Union reports that the New York Public Service Commission this week rolled back recently adopted rules that threatened to make hundreds of large-scale solar projects economically impossible. The Public Service Commission last month announced a new formula that utilities would use to compensate large solar farms for the electricity. At the Feb. 26 meeting of the PSC, chair Audrey Zibelman admitted that the change had unintended consequences. "We need to get this right," Zibelman said. "Our intentions were in the right place, but we do need to think this through." Read the full story in the Albany Times-Union.