MONPELIER,VT — Want to cut reliance on your fossil-fuel-burning utility, but don’t have space for solar panels? Easy, the sales pitch goes, buy a share in the new “community solar array” being built on the outskirts of town.

But experts and regulators say there’s a catch. Some of the biggest marketers of such deals are stripping the “green” benefits out of them and selling them elsewhere, leaving homeowners with a small discount on the same electricity they were using before.

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