Xcel’s top priority — and legal obligation — is maximizing profits for shareholders, even if that comes at the expense of customers and the country’s most successful community solar program, as a new parody video, released today by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and Community Power reveals.
Today, there’s a battle brewing across the US to reinvigorate a little-used law and bring it into alignment with a modern marketplace riper than ever for small-scale renewables. Like other policies that present compelling local economic value — among them net metering and community solar — PURPA lives or dies by its implementation.
Love the state or hate it, California is a green electric mobility bastion of projects, programs, and innovations. And the California Public Utilities Commission just approved no less than 15 utility pilot programs to accelerate the widespread electrification of mobility.
Originally published on Sustainnovate. I was lucky to spend a lot of time with Clint Wilder, senior editor at CleanEdge, while in Abu Dhabi for the World Future Energy Summit, Zayed Future Energy Prize Awards Ceremony, and other Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week events. One morning, Clint set aside approximately 45 … [continued]
