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Mar 27, 2015

Georgia Legislature First in Southeast to Authorize Third-Party Financing of Onsite Solar Power Facilities

Last Friday, the Georgia Senate unanimously approved HB 57, the Georgia Solar Power Free-Market Financing Act of 2015. Sponsored by Representative Mike Dudgeon, R-Johns Creek, the Act now moves to the desk of Governor Nathan Deal for signature. SGR’s Steve O’Day has worked with diverse groups in drafting, negotiating and supporting solar free-market financing legislation for six years.  His work with Jason Rooks of the Georgia Solar Energy Industries Association and lawyers for Georgia Power Company and Georgia’s 51 Electric Membership Cooperatives and 49 municipal electric authorities in negotiating the language of many of the law’s provisions was instrumental in… Read more