<p><strong>To the editor:</strong></p>
<p>The Indiana General Assembly is considering a bill that would find balance between the amount paid by electric customers who self-generate their own electricity and customers who don’t.</p>
<p>Current Indiana policy establishes an overly generous financial credit for customers who self-generate electricity by means such as solar panels and sell any excess to the electric utility.</p>
<p>This credit currently results in self-generating customers not paying the full cost of the service they receive from the electric utility when their personal source does not meet their electric needs. As a result, customers who don’t self-generate end up paying more for their energy to make up the difference.</p>
<p>Senate Bill 309 would provide a fix for this by allowing customers to continue to receive a reasonable credit for the energy they generate, while ensuring that other customers don’t pay for someone else’s share of the costs.</p>
<p>Senate Bill 309 should be passed by the Indiana General Assembly.</p>
<p><p style="text-align: right"><strong>John Eckart</strong></p>
<p><p style="text-align: right">Greenwood</p>
