Regulators from the Maine Public Utilities Commission have found the Passamaquoddy Tribe's plans to install solar panels on more than 200 homes in the Indian Township community will not violate state rules on the size of certain renewable energy developments.

The project, funded with a $7.4 million federal grant , has been on hold since late last year after local utility Eastern Maine Electric Cooperative argued the rooftop arrays amounted to a single "discrete electric generating facility" capable of producing 1.9 megawatts of power, more than is allowed under Maine's Net Energy Billing rules.

The utility argued that since the arrays had a common source of funding, economies of scale and were within a mile of one another, they should be considered a single generator .

But PUC inves

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