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52 Id.
53 Iowa Code Ann. § 564.A.5.3.
54 See Iowa Code Ann. § 564.A.5.4.
55 See Iowa Code Ann. § 564.A.6.
56 See, e.g. , N.M. Stat. § 47-3-4 (1978); Wyo.Stat. Ann. §§ 34-22-101 to 104
(2009); Mass. Ann. Laws ch. 140A, § 9B (Lexis Nexis 2006).
57 See Iowa Code Ann. § 564A.
58 See, e.g. , Chris Deline, et al., Photovoltaic Shading Testbed for Module-Level
Power Electronics at 1, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (May 2012)
(noting that using a microinverter on an 8-kW solar PV array increased its energy
productivity by 12.3 percent under “heavy shading” conditions).
59 See generally Solar Means Business: Top Commercial Solar Customers in the
U.S ., Solar Energy Industries Association (Nov. 2012), available at www.seia.
org/research-resources/solar-means-business-top-commercial-solar-customers-us
(last visited June 30, 2013) (describing rapid growth in solar energy installations
by large retail companies).
60 See generally Philip Wolfe, The Rise of Utility-Scale Solar , RenewableEnergyWorld.
com (April 15, 2013), available at www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/
article/2013/04/the-rise-and-rise-of-utility-scale-solar (last visited July 2, 2013)
(noting that “utility-scale power plants are now the fastest-growing application
for the photovoltaics (PV) industry”).