JUNEAU, Alaska - With less than 30 days left in the legislative session, a flurry of bills passed out of the state Senate on Monday.
“But let’s say you have so much energy that you want to power not only your house but maybe another house next door to you ... and you want to put an array of solar panels on the top of that building to generate electricity to go to multiple meters. You can’t do that under existing Alaska law.”This bill would reverse current state law which prohibits someone putting solar panels on top of a building to generate electricity to go to multiple meters.
“There are a lot of things like solar and wind that don’t provide the efficiency that we need,” Shower said. “And there are people out there that think that, ‘Well, if we just do a lot of wind and solar we’re going to be great,’ except we’re not. We don’t have a battery storage capacity.”Also on Monday, a bill putting hunting, trapping, and fishing license residency requirements on par with what it takes to be eligible for PFD passed the Senate.
He said it’s unfair for someone who’s away most of the year to have the same hunting, fishing and trapping access as someone who lives in the state year-round., would make the residency requirements for hunting, trapping and fishing the same as those used for establishing residency for a Permanent Fund dividend.