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PG&E spokeswoman Ellen Hayes says the incentives for solar systems are a holdover from the early days of alternative energy deployment in California, and are now due to be updated. But, she says, the utility remains supportive of further solar expansion.

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  However, Brad Heavner, from the California Solar Energy Industries Association questions that timetable.

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At Sonoma Clean Power, CEO Geof Cyphers sees the current wrangling as a predictable response to changes in the energy industry.

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