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This bill aims to promote solar power in environmental justice and urban communities. It does this by: 1. Defining key terms like "low-income", "environmental justice", and "environmental justice population", and creating new concepts like "low-income solar net metering facility" and "community shared solar net metering facility". 2. Allowing net metering credits from solar facilities to be allocated to low-income and environmental justice households, in addition to municipalities and government entities. 3. Increasing the aggregate net metering capacity limits for facilities that are not municipal or governmental, from 7% to 12% of a distribution company's peak load, and for municipal/governmental facilities, from 8% to 13%. 4. Requiring any solar incentive program created by the Department of Energy Resources to have a mandatory portion dedicated to equitably sharing the economic and environmental benefits in communities facing barriers to access, including low-income households and rental housing. Overall, the bill aims to expand access to solar power and its benefits in underserved communities.

Transportation and Infrastructure

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S1831