Comments on: New Hampshire Vote to Exit RGGI Endangers Solar Rebates by January http://cleantechnica.com/2011/03/02/new-hampshire-vote-to-exit-rggi-endangers-solar-rebates-by-january/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Mon, 29 Dec 2014 14:19:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: RGGI Cap & Trade Program in U.S. to Tighten Caps - CleanTechnica http://cleantechnica.com/2011/03/02/new-hampshire-vote-to-exit-rggi-endangers-solar-rebates-by-january/#comment-115333 Sat, 10 Mar 2012 03:21:20 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=23717#comment-115333 […] York and New Hampshire both have governors who are solidly committed to staying in, though New Hampshire’s Tea Party House installed by the Koch brothers attempted an exit last […]

]]> By: Record CO2 Reduction in US Cap & Trade States | CleanTechnica http://cleantechnica.com/2011/03/02/new-hampshire-vote-to-exit-rggi-endangers-solar-rebates-by-january/#comment-111858 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:48:11 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=23717#comment-111858 […] New Hampshire Republican House also bowed to the mighty Koch brothers (New Hampshire Vote to Exit RGGI ) but were thwarted by the state’s Democratic governor. The most recent quarterly auction […]

]]> By: 3 States Stay in Northeast Cap & Trade Program (for Obvious Reasons) Despite Huge Republican/Tea Party Attack – CleanTechnica: Cleantech innovation news and views http://cleantechnica.com/2011/03/02/new-hampshire-vote-to-exit-rggi-endangers-solar-rebates-by-january/#comment-99755 Tue, 24 May 2011 20:55:41 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=23717#comment-99755 […] and trade program for greenhouse gases, for awhile. It seemed 99.9% sure that New Hampshire would pull out after its House of Representatives voted to pull out of the initiative and its Senate had a clear […]

]]> By: Australian MPs Getting Death Threats Over Proposed Carbon Tax – CleanTechnica: Cleantech innovation news and views http://cleantechnica.com/2011/03/02/new-hampshire-vote-to-exit-rggi-endangers-solar-rebates-by-january/#comment-95038 Tue, 08 Mar 2011 20:37:17 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=23717#comment-95038 […] New Hampshire Vote to Exit RGGI Endangers Solar Rebates by January (cleantechnica.com) […]

]]> By: China and Europe Steaming Ahead on Clean Energy, not the U.S. | ecopolitology http://cleantechnica.com/2011/03/02/new-hampshire-vote-to-exit-rggi-endangers-solar-rebates-by-january/#comment-94981 Mon, 07 Mar 2011 05:02:48 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=23717#comment-94981 […] launching a full-out attack on clean air, the climate, clean energy, our health, and the economy; New Hampshire likely pulling out of a successful regional cap-and-trade program; and Florida Gov. Rick Scott […]

]]> By: Susan Kraemer http://cleantechnica.com/2011/03/02/new-hampshire-vote-to-exit-rggi-endangers-solar-rebates-by-january/#comment-94896 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 19:48:24 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=23717#comment-94896 Very great local info – thanks.

So the residential solar was $2,000 a kilowatt, but is now gone. I knew I should have checked DSIRE, but took another journalist’s word for it that it was $1 a watt (=$1,000 a kilowatt) That is great price for solar for New Hampshire. I’m in sunny California and loving my solar (from a SunRun PPA) but even mine is 12 cents a kwh! (I was paying 19 cents per kwh to PG&E)

]]> By: ReVision Energy http://cleantechnica.com/2011/03/02/new-hampshire-vote-to-exit-rggi-endangers-solar-rebates-by-january/#comment-94891 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:37:24 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=23717#comment-94891 This is a great article, thanks for highlighting New Hampshire’s unique stance here as well as the very serious repercussions of pulling out of RGGI. To add a bit more info, it is estimated RGGI benefits only costs .36/mo per ratepayer. Ironically, since NH buys a fair share of power from out-of-state, ratepayers will still end up paying some RGGI fees even if the state opts out of the program.

Also, to correct your information about solar rebates – the $1/watt benefit you’re mentioning is available exclusively to businesses, nonprofits, and municipalities. The state of residential PV rebates in NH is another issue – those rebates, to date, have been funded by RPS, which is a separate program funded by penalties paid by electricity providers who fail to purchase a requisite amount of renewable energy. These penalty payments go towards renewable programs, such as the residential PV program which provided a $2/watt rebate up to $6,000 until it ran out of money last year. Like RGGI, the RPS has been under fire from the Republican state legislature.

The good news is that PV in general has dropped in cost considerably, and over a 20 year cost of electricity solar electric is a better deal than the grid (~.11c/kWh vs ~.16/kWh). NH also has a great program for solar hot water currently in place to help all of the NH homeowners that run high-mass oil boilers to heat water in the summertime switch over to solar… saving hundreds of gallons of #2 heating oil every year.

We recently posted this guide to the available NH rebates: http://www.revisionenergy.com/blog/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-hampshire-solar-energy-rebates/

Thanks again for the coverage!

– ReVision Energy
Leading ME and NH Solar Installer

]]> By: Gregory Norminton http://cleantechnica.com/2011/03/02/new-hampshire-vote-to-exit-rggi-endangers-solar-rebates-by-january/#comment-94888 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:03:25 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=23717#comment-94888 And leaving aside the ecological cost of such stupidity? This is what’s coming to the UK, according to our own (otherwise pretty wretched) government:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/mar/03/chris-huhne-oil-prices-green-economy

The US is not excluded from reality. The only difference is that most of the developed world isn’t hamstrung in the way America is by its delusional, wilfully blind and corrupt Republican Party. It’s simply astonishing how destructive GOP politics has become: preferring a ruined planet and trashed economy to the presidency of a rational black man.

]]> By: New Hampshire Vote to Exit RGGI Endangers Solar Rebates by January | raypearce250 http://cleantechnica.com/2011/03/02/new-hampshire-vote-to-exit-rggi-endangers-solar-rebates-by-january/#comment-94877 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 02:11:14 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=23717#comment-94877 […] It is very unusual for a state that gets very little of its energy from coal to vote in favor of polluters, as New Hampshire just did, when its new Republican majority voted to end New Hampshire’s membership in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) in a veto-proof majority – that its Democratic Governor, who… Read More… […]

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