As litigation over a proposed solar farm development heads to the Montana Supreme Court, attorneys for Montana’s utility regulation commission have offered a rebuttal to the solar developer’s claim that commissioners’ highly public skepticism about renewable energy amounts to a due-process violation.

Yes, some commissioners showed bias, the Public Service Commission says in an Oct. 3 court filing — but not so much bias that a lower court judge was justified in overruling how the commission set rates for the solar project.

By Eric Dietrich

PSC attorney: Commissioners showed bias about solar projects — but not too much

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PSC chair passes off copied letter from The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity about energy reliability as his own