net metering

Legislation has cleared the State Senate that would create more financial incentives for the use of solar power.  On Tuesday, a citizens environmental group, Environment Massachusetts, was in Fall River urging passage of the bill in the Mass...

(Associated Press) - Environmental activists are launching a tour of Massachusetts to press Beacon Hill lawmakers and Gov. Charlie Baker to lift limits on a key program designed to encourage solar power use in the state. The group Environment Massachusetts said the 10-community tour is meant to call attention to ``net-metering'' which allows homeowners, businesses and local governments to sell exc