Indiana's House Utilities Committee voted 8-5 to advance a bill overhauling the state's net metering policy.
The bill would slowly lower the amount Hoosiers receive for selling excess energy back to the grid. In 30 years, Hoosiers would receive a rate closer to the wholesale rate rather than the current, higher, retail rate.
The committee did amend the bill. Originally, it allowed exemptions where utilities could pay less than the new rate. But an amendment from Committee Chair Dave Ober removed that language, locking in the same new rate for all customers.
The bill now goes to the full House. Ober acknowledges there's been push-back on the bill throughout the process but says he feels comfortable now.
"At this stage of the game, after all the testimony that we took, that the bill's in a decent place for now for the House to take an up or down vote on it," Ober says.
Ober does expect additional amendments will be filed in the House.