Today, The Alliance for Solar Choice (TASC) launched a new website WeAreTeamSolar.com to urge federal legislators to support solar by including it in this year’s tax extenders legislation. The website asks Congress to “help keep solar on a level playing field” and kicks off a national campaign to compel action on the … [continued]
The Alliance for Solar Choice announced today it is launching a statewide campaign calling on California’s largest utilities to tell the truth about their anti-solar stance. California investor-owned utilities PG&E, SCE and SDG&E recently submitted proposals to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) designed to destroy the rooftop solar industry … [continued]
By Bryan Miller, co-chairman of The Alliance for Solar Choice The solar job losses have started in Nevada. Last Thursday, the solar market ground to a halt when NV Energy, a subsidiary of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Energy, claimed the state’s solar net metering cap was hit — despite NV Energy’s … [continued]
National utility trade association Edison Electric Institute (EEI) has admitted that its members are pushing for solar taxes. Utilities across the country are lobbying for Value of Solar Tariffs (VOSTs), which require solar homeowners to sell the solar power they generate to the utility. That sale triggers substantial taxation for … [continued]
A new opinion poll reveals that Hawaiian Electric (HECO) has a significant public image problem: an overwhelming number of Hawaii residents (94%) support more rooftop solar, and 90% believe that HECO is slowing rooftop solar to protect its profits. The poll confirms that most residents are very familiar with and supportive of … [continued]
Fresh on the heels of recent ALEC defeats in Utah and Washington, the solar industry today declares victory in Kansas. Across the country, many utilities are attacking the solar industry (and the utilities’ own customers) by attempting to eliminate net metering. Net metering allows rooftop solar customers to use clean … [continued]
Last month, The Alliance for Solar Choice (TASC) announced big wins for solar in Washington and Utah. In Washington, utility-backed anti-competition legislation that would have given utilities monopoly control over the existing rooftop solar market died at the end of the session in March. In Utah, bill language that would … [continued]
In 2013, a national battle for energy choice commenced as utilities attacked solar net metering in California, Arizona, Louisiana, and Idaho. Net metering allows rooftop solar customers to use clean solar energy that they generate themselves, and then receive full retail credit for any excess electricity sent back to the grid. … [continued]
Coloradans support rooftop solar. They have made that abundantly clear time and time again. A recent poll demonstrated that 70% of Coloradans support net metering, a critical solar policy. In December, hundreds of residents descended on Xcel headquarters to oppose the utility’s attacks on rooftop solar. And at the beginning … [continued]
Last week, Northeast Utilities (NU) in Massachusetts opposed a plan that would bring economic growth to the state while boosting use of cleaner and more efficient solar energy. Solar delivers a financial benefit to all ratepayers, but NU doesn’t like it because it prefers investing in large transmission and gas … [continued]
