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SOLAR MANDATORY? Home Builders Fought It, Now Support It
While most politicians are too scared to even mention climate change, let alone do something constructive like support renewables and tax carbon, the Lancaster City Council in Mojave, California...
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Summer Starts With Dangerous New Record
The start of the summer season generally kicks off after Memorial Day. The weather starts warming, we plan weekend trips, and fire up the air conditioning. Even the air feels different. Actually the...
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Confused About Solar Net Metering? So Are Utilities
Don’t worry if you don’t understand the kerfuffle over net metering for rooftop solar yet. California utilities don’t seem to understand it yet either. As US News & World Report writes, Gary Stern...
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Net Metering Keeps Solar Shining in New York
As reported by Vote Solar last week, there’s exciting news on the New York solar front: the New York Public Service Commission just approved a decision to triple the state’s net metering cap. Click...
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Want The Latino Vote? They Want Solar and Net Metering
Elections have consequences, and the 2012 elections certainly made Washington aware of the impact of the Latino vote. So now politicians are finally listening, what do Latino voters want? According to...
View ArticleSolar Permits: Big Dollars And Little Sense?
With an 80% drop since 2008, the cost of solar has plummeted almost as much as Congress’ approval ratings. (Well, maybe not that much!) Yet according to the good people over at the Vote Solar, there’s...
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Arizona Power Corrupts Absolutely
Arizonans will be cranking their AC just from all the political hot air generated by Arizona Public Service’s (APS) new proposal to the Arizona Corporation Commission. The proposal would slap costly...
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What Hawaii Can Teach Us About Solar
The business outlook for solar in Hawaii certainly looks ‘sunny’ with graphs like this one from the LA Times showing solar capacity on an exponential growth curve: doubling in size every year since...
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Global Solar Update
In the global energy game, the solar industry is rapidly transitioning from the minor leagues to the majors, and there are big plays and upsets on a daily basis. Here’s the score on what’s been...
View ArticleSEIA’s Q2 Report: Business is Beaming
The second quarterly report from SEIA (Solar Energy industry Association) is in, and the numbers show yet another sunny quarter for the solar industry. The second best yet in terms of overall capacity...
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