LD 1986 represents a positive step forward in prospectively reforming Maine’s Net Energy Billing (NEB) program, which enables customers to offset their electricity bills with the solar power they generate. The legislation closes the costly commercial and industrial tariff program within NEB, creates a new program for solar projects to take advantage of federal funds and benefit low-income Mainers, directs the Maine Public Utilities Commission to account for NEB ratepayer costs and benefits instead of relying on utility calculations, and ensures the development of a new solar program for larger projects moving forward.