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Residents powering homes face problems
Sunday, January 04, 2009
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Problems have arisen with a new Missouri law that was supposed to make it easy for residents powering their own homes to put in wind turbines or solar panels.

The idea was for the homeowners to be able to send any excess power back to utilities.

But the Missouri Public Service Commission, which oversees the utilities, is requiring homeowners to buy insurance before they start feeding electricity to the grid. And it appears that no Missouri insurance companies sell the insurance.

Henry Robertson, an attorney for St. Louis-based Great Rivers Environmental Law Center, says he’s contacted renewable energy installers who’ve told him the insurance isn’t available.

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Information from: The Kansas City Star, http://www.kcstar.com

 
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