New Hampshire Solar Advocates Speak Out On YouTube
In addition to the distinction of hosting the first-in-the-nation primary, New Hampshire is also one of the fastest-growing solar energy markets in America. In fact, its 2014 growth rate ranked third...
View ArticleNew Hampshire Sticks With Solar Net Metering, Which Voters Support
From the “Brews and Bills” file: Last Friday, Governor Maggie Hassan joined ReVision Energy co-founder Phil Coupe at Throwback Brewery in North Hampton for a ceremonial signing of HB1116 — New...
View ArticleStrange Bedfellows Of The Energy Industry
The old saw goes that politics makes for strange bedfellows. Well, the same appears to be true in the battle over our energy future, judging by the looks of an exceptionally weird story that’s...
View ArticleCivil War At Duke Energy?
In 2013, rooftop solar battles had two clear sides: a burgeoning solar industry bringing clean, renewable energy and consumer choice to the masses; and the monopoly utility industry looking to salvage...
View ArticleNor’easter Raging Over Solar Power In Massachusetts
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick is not beating around the bush when it comes to making his state the greenest in the nation. The Green Communities Act he pushed in 2008 started Massachusetts down...
View ArticleAPS Is At It Again
Arizona Public Service is at it again. After failing to dismantle net energy metering in 2013, the monopoly utility company is aggressively pushing legislation to increase taxes on solar customers. And...
View ArticleVOSTs Don’t FIT With Our Energy Future
After suffering nine stinging defeats over the past year and a half, big utilities seem to have learned that trying to stop the rooftop solar revolution by killing net energy metering is like standing...
View ArticleThe Double Agent and the Gorilla, Part 3
Not long ago, I wrote about Clean Power Finance and its President and CEO Nat Kreamer. At the time, Kreamer — a former military man — appeared to be serving as a “double agent,” playing both sides of...
View ArticleRhone Resch Raking It In
A friend linked me to a story this week that made my blood boil. And oddly enough, it has absolutely nothing to do with investor-owned utilities. In fact, it shines a light on a growing concern about...
View ArticleRattling The Cage At SEIA
It’s a funny thing. The more you rattle the cage, the more the caged bird sings. Since I posted a link to Chet Henry’s piece on Red, Green, and Blue last week about the impressive salary pulled down by...
View ArticleWill You Take The Solar Pledge?
If you’ve been following solar industry news, you’re familiar with reports of some in the industry cozying up to monopoly utilities while continuing to paint themselves as solar champions. They...
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