Last night, HB 1243 failed to make the midnight deadline for the House to either concur or go to conference on Senate amendments. As HB 1243 died, so did SB 545 – bill to establish a rebate program for distributed solar generation that would have jumpstarted the wide-scale adoption of rooftop solar throughout the state.

As anyone who has been following this bill on ACT knows, this is a terrible outcome to years of work by environmental organizations, emerging energy industry groups, and legislators. Most of all, it represents a great loss for Texas.

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