Huntsville Utilities faces a lawsuit over home inspection services.
Southern Valley, a locally owned energy-efficiency consulting and home diagnostic company, filed suit alleging that Huntsville Utilities hired three employees to provide free inspections and then reimbursed itself with rebate dollars from a Tennessee Valley Authority program. That hurt small and private companies, the suit claimed.
The inspection program, launched in 2023, provides one-time rebates of $400 for new homes that score 70 or below on the Home Energy Rating System, or HERS…