Solar energy advocates anticipate lawmakers will continue to push for legislation in 2024 that could lead to big changes to industry regulations and could rapidly expand Georgia’s rooftop solar market.
Georgia’s legislative session for 2023 ended on March 29 with a door-to-door sales bill representing the only solar measure to win final approval in both the state House and Senate. Half a dozen solar-related bills that still remain alive when lawmakers return in January for the second half of the two-year session.
The most controversial proposal that could return next year is House Bill 73, legislation with bipartisan support that could provide state utility regulators with oversight of solar contractors that finance and install residential rooftop solar panels. Meanwhile, a measure backed by clean energy advocates could move Georgia out of the bottom ten states for solar-powered homes and businesses.
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