By GARRY RAYNO, Distant Dome
The federal government wants to give New Hampshire $43.5 million to broaden the reach of solar power to low and moderate-income families.
One of the often-heard criticisms of net metering, which allows homeowners with solar panels to sell their unused electricity to electric utilities, is only the well-to-do or connected folks who can afford to install the panels without tax breaks or credits benefit from the program, not the poor and lower-middle class.
Some tried to remedy that by allowing communities to benefit with larger scale solar arrays for towns or school districts that would lower electric costs in a kind of trickle down arrangement.
Another impediment to reaping the benefits of solar energy is the slow process that many projects endure connecting to the grid as utilities have other…
