Don’t let utilities squash Kentucky’s solar entrepreneurs. Here’s a better plan. | Kentuckians For The Commonwealth

Don’t let utilities squash Kentucky’s solar entrepreneurs. Here’s a better plan.

Tom Eblen
February 25, 2017
Lexington Herald-Leader

With the General Assembly controlled by business-friendly Republicans, electric utilities might have sensed an opportunity to ram through legislation to limit the growth of independent solar power in Kentucky. But they didn’t count on pushback from other business people, who pointed out that Senate Bill 214 would be a job-killing, anti-free market move to strengthen utility monopolies.