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A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the Michigan House are pushing a series of energy reform bills they say will boost access to renewable energy.
State Representative Gary Glenn is sponsoring one the measures and says proposals already floated in the House, Senate and by the governor would do the opposite.
He says all three would take away consumer choice and give more of a monopoly to the utilities.
One of the bills would expand the net metering program, which allows people with solar panels to sell unused energy back to their utility.
A bill before a Senate committee would alter that program.
Another would create a Community Energy Garden, which would be similar to Community Supported Agriculture program.
