Last night the Clay Center City Council approved an ordinance for standards for people wanting to connect solar panels to the city’s electric grid and another ordinance setting the rate of reimbursement for those generating electricity with solar panels who generate more electricity than they use. Public Utilities Superintendent Scott Glaves told the council the rate of reimbursement for those generating more electricity than they use by solar rate is 150 percent of the “deferred cost,” or what PU would have paid for that electricity had it not been generated by the solar panel. This rate is set by state statute.
There hasn’t been much call for people putting in their own solar panels around here, put as those panels become cheaper and more readily available, Public Utilities expands that trend to change.
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