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In response to the recent changes introduced by LD 1777, ReVision Energy has created this FAQ page for our customers who own multiple shares in Member-Owned Community Solar projects.
This is a dynamic and fast-evolving issue, so we will update this webpage as new information becomes available.
ReVision Energy has successfully advocated for our customers’ interests in Augusta, working directly with the Public Utilities Commission (PUC), utilities, legislature, and the Governor's Office. We are please to report that this advocacy has solved the issue for our customers: on April 21, 2026, LD 1966 was signed into law, which expressly allows customers to have more than one ownership-model community solar share. We have provided further background and information on the issue below.
On April 21, 2026, LD 1966 became law. Section 7 of this bill fixes the issue we’ve been concerned about and expressly allows customers to have more than one ownership-model community solar share. The bill passed the House and the Senate in early April and made it to the Governor’s desk on April 13. The Governor essentially has ten days to sign the law, veto the law, or allow it to become law without her signature. The latter occurred on April 21. As you may remember, on March 2, 2026, the PUC met to approve an order that directs the utilities to suspend enforcement of any new restriction upon customers' ability to receive credits from multiple community solar ownership shares pending the legislative fix proposed in LD 1966. (You can find that order by clicking Filing Item # 8 here). With this action, the PUC has made clear that customers of member-owned community solar projects will continue to receive credits associated with additional ownership shares while the Legislature worked to clarify current law through its passage of LD 1966.
Next, the PUC will have to formally acknowledge LD 1966’s passage and tell the utilities not to disrupt any credit distribution to customers with ownership interested in their community solar shares. Essentially, they have to formally reverse their February 3, 2026 ruling. ReVision will track this action and ensure it happens—but there is strong precedent here, and we are not concerned that there will be any further customer impact as the legislature has spoken.
We’re so grateful for your continued advocacy throughout this process; the stories from our Solar Champions ultimately made all the difference!
In 2025, Maine’s legislature passed LD1777. The bill made significant changes to Maine’s Net Energy Billing program, which is the mechanism by which renewable energy project owners can receive compensation for the electricity generated. ReVision Energy and our customers have demonstrated the value of Member-Owned Community Solar, and have helped to distinguish the ownership model from other subscription models.
While ReVision’s Public Policy team was able to influence LD1777 to exempt member-owned community solar projects from many of the problematic legislative changes, the Public Utilities Commission has interpreted the law to prevent any single residential account from earning credits from multiple solar farms.
Even before the PUC finalized its implementation rules, CMP began sending notifications to some customers with more than one solar farm on a single account. The notification indicates that you may only receive credits from one community solar project and may no longer enroll in multiple projects. This has created confusion for our customers, and we have worked aggressively with the utilities, the PUC, the Public Advocate, and the legislature to fix the problems created by LD1777.
This situation is the result of a poorly drafted section of LD1777. The Public Advocate intended for that section to address an issue where some customers inadvertently signed up for multiple solar subscriptions from different community solar providers, causing problems for both the customer and the utility. The intent was to curtail this issue, which is a consequence of some of the aggressive door-to-door subscription community solar sellers. As you know, ReVision has a different model, offering our customers member-ownership in community solar projects.
During the legislative session, we were assured by both the Public Advocate and legislators that the intent of the provision was sufficiently clear and that it was not intended to affect customers like you, and they declined our suggested edits to the legislative language before the bill passed.
Unfortunately, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) had concluded they do not have the legal authority to exempt ownership-model community solar owners from this limitation. While expressing sympathy for the absurdity and injustice of the situation (essentially forcing Maine customers to divest of their solar farm shares), they felt that their hands were tied by the legislative language. They came to that conclusion despite the Public Advocate and others joining us in filing comments encouraging them to exercise reasonable discretion based on the clear legislative intent.
We think this outcome – for customers like you who have made a prudent investment in a community solar project – was outrageous, indefensible, and unacceptable.
The ReVision team has been actively working with the utilities, the PUC, the OPA, the legislature, and the Governor's Office to fix the problems for member-owned community solar created by LD1777. Addressing these issues requires a policy fix. As noted above, our first action was to provide detailed input to the PUC as they developed implementation rules for LD1777.
We also filed a petition for reconsideration at the PUC, asking them to reconsider their decision. If you're interested in reading our petition, you can view the docket here, and click on Filing Item #21, ReVision Energy Inc. Request for Reconsideration.
Simultaneously, we immediately began working with members of the Energy, Utility, and Technology Committee in the Maine Legislature to add language to a bill being considered in the current legislative session to fix this obvious mistake and treat customers like you fairly. That language was added as an amendment in LD1966, which was taken up by the EUT Committee on Thursday, February 26 and advanced on a party line vote, 8-5. We actively worked with the OPA, the Maine Renewable Energy Association, and the utilities to get this language across the finish line.
After a considerable amount of legislative advocacy and direct conversations with lawmakers, on April 7, the House and the Senate passed LD 1966, and sent it to Governor Mills’ desk. We met with her office to ensure she understood the stakes and urged her to support the bill. She had ten days to take action on the bill, and she chose to let it become law without her signature (for other reasons), which happened on April 21. Again, we thank you for your advocacy to our state lawmakers; it is critical for decision-makers to hear from the Mainers impacted by the policies they pass.
If you’d like to learn more about ReVision’s work in Augusta (and Concord and Boston) and our public policy team who led this work, check out our blog post here.
As you may remember, on March 2, 2026, the PUC ordered utilities to suspend enforcement of any new restriction that would limit your ability to receive credits from multiple community solar shares as the Legislature considered (and ultimately passed) LD 1966. That meant that implementation of any restriction on receiving credits from multiple shares is officially on pause.
Now, the PUC will need to make that pause indefinite, and essentially reverse its decision it made on February 3 that kicked off this issue in the first place. They will need to formally direct the utilities to never withhold credits from customers with ownership interests in their community solar shares per LD 1966, including for the time between when LD 1777 became law and when LD 1966 becomes law.
We are not concerned about this process as there is precedent in such formalization, but rest assured we will track this action to ensure nothing goes off the rails. We believe the fix has crossed the finish line—the legislature has spoken and there should be no negative impact to our ownership-model community solar customers (so long as the utility knows you have ownership-interests in your shares, which is information we have directly provided to both Central Maine Power and Versant).
If CMP withholds credits to your residential account, please contact us and the PUC immediately. The PUC has asked ReVision to direct customers to its Consumer Assistance Division so they can appropriately pause utility action while the legislation is pending.
Go to the Consumer Assistance Division website, and either call or send in an email alerting them that CMP has withheld credits as a result of the implementation of LD 1777 and the unintentional application of Section 15 to ownership-model community solar shares. Ask them to please tell CMP to pause these changes and compensate you accordingly for the power you rightly produced while the legislation is pending.
Have more questions?
Send Chris Bitely an email: cbitely@revisionenergy.com