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Wyoming Supreme Court sides with small-scale solar users - WyoFile

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The Wyoming Supreme Court affirmed a decades-old state law that incentivizes homes and small businesses to produce solar electricity.

The court rejected High Plains Power’s plan to compensate solar users for their excess power at a monthly wholesale rate.

The Public Service Commission must now reconsider the monthly tariff it approved for High Plains and potentially two other electric co-ops in the state.

Home solar users and other proponents of Wyoming ’s current net-metering law spoke against the measure.

Proponents of the law say many people chose to invest in home solar based on the law.

A 2022 analysis suggests any customer-to-customer subsidization occuring in Wyoming is so small it's difficult to measure given the small amount of home and small business solar generation.