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This bill, known as the Mississippi Community Solar Act of 2026, establishes a program allowing communities to collectively invest in and benefit from solar energy projects. The Public Service Commission (PSC), or "Commission," will create and oversee this program, which will enable customers to subscribe to community solar facilities, defined as solar energy systems connected to the electric utility's distribution system within the same service area, with a maximum capacity of five megawatts (MW) unless located on rooftops, landfills, or over parking lots/roadways. Subscribers will receive "bill credits," which are monetary values for the electricity generated by their subscribed portion of the solar facility, applied to their electricity bills. The bill also outlines rights and responsibilities for "community solar organizations," entities that manage these facilities, including requirements for selling subscriptions that result in bill savings and prohibiting certain fees. Furthermore, electric utilities must accept applications to connect these community solar facilities to the grid and will establish an "Interconnection Study Group" to ensure efficient and transparent interconnection processes, with utilities also required to develop data access programs to facilitate customer investments in clean energy technologies.

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