Baker urges local officials to press ahead with solar projects
Gov. Charlie Baker on Tuesday urged local officials to encourage the construction of new solar energy projects, despite the fact that the cap on the amount of solar power that can be sold back to the grid has already been hit for nearly half the state's communities.
Baker, who last month filed legislation that would lift the cap on what's known as net metering, said during a meeting of the Local Government Advisory Council that installing solar generators can still be financially worthwhile even without the ability to sell the extra electricity to the grid at retail rates.
"A cap does not mean that there is no benefit financially to a community, to a household, to a commercial property owner going ahead and doing a solar project," Baker said. "All a cap means is that you get reimbursed on the net meter at a wholesale price rather than retail."
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