A coalition of farmers, landowners, business leaders and energy exports, are pushing for legislation that would allow more small community solar farms. Farmers say on-farm solar fields would help generate income as they face declining commodity prices and rising input costs. Under the bill, entities called subscriber organizations may own or operate community solar facilities, which use solar energy to produce electricity. They generally testified that credits awarded to members of these new community solar subscribers might raise bills for other customers because non-subscribers would be “subsidizing” the cost of connecting community solar projects to the grid. There are 24 states that already have such legislation allowing for private community solar projects.