Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 46. PUBLIC UTILITIES AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION · Chapter 3. ELECTRICAL SERVICE · Article 1. GENERATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRICITY GENERALLY · Part 4. SOLAR POWER FREE-MARKET FINANCING

46-3-61. Findings.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.

The General Assembly hereby finds and declares that:
(1)
It is in the public interest to facilitate customers of electric service providers to invest in and install on their property solar technologies of their choice;#
(2)
Free-market financing of solar technologies may provide more customers with opportunities to install solar technology;#
(3)
Solar energy procurement agreements, and other similar financing arrangements, including those in which the payments are based on the performance and output of the solar technology installed on the property of customers of electric service providers, are financing arrangements which may help reduce or eliminate upfront costs involved in solar technology investments and installation by such customers; and#
(4)
Individuals and entities which offer or receive such financing opportunities through solar energy procurement agreements pursuant to this part should not be considered or treated as electric service providers.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 46-3-61, enacted by Ga. L. 2015, p. 1438, § 1/HB 57.

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