<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><h1 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(46, 108, 156); word-break: break-word; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Monopolies in Michigan fear solar, deliver some of nation’s most expensive electricity</span></h1><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(52, 73, 94); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">An analysis by Michigan Technological University shows how Michigan utilities use political influence to push back against distributed solar generation, </span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(52, 73, 94); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">leading to some of the nation’s highest electricity rates in the Upper Peninsula.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Excerpt: </b><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Researchers at Michigan Technological University have found that the state’s utilities are hindering the proliferation of distributed generation through </span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">rate cases, legal maneuvers, shifting control from regulators, and selective modeling in the cost of service studies. Utilities can propose little compensation as </span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">well as added fees on DG customers, making these customers’ investment in renewable energy technologies unattractive.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><a href="https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2019/03/19/monopolies-in-michigan-fear-solar-deliver-some-of-nations-most-expensive-electricity/" class="">https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2019/03/19/monopolies-in-michigan-fear-solar-deliver-some-of-nations-most-expensive-electricity/</a><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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