The Utah Supreme Court ruled this week to keep a lower, fluctuating energy reimbursement rate for Utah homeowners that chose to put solar panels on their roofs.The Utah Supreme Court issued a ruling this week that marks a setback for Utahns with rooftop solar panels and, indirectly, efforts to expand the state’s supply of clean energy.
After the rate was adopted, she said, several companies left Utah to focus on markets where solar panels were a more attractive option. My beef isn’t so much with the Supreme Court. Their ruling didn’t get to the merits of Vote Solar’s claims, but the reasoning in the unanimous opinion — from my untrained reading — looks to be sound.
But simply saying we want “all-of-the-above” without considering the hidden costs, long-term impacts and sustainability is not really much of a policy at all.