Word Of The Day, Regressive. In another relentless cross-country attack on solar, the word of the day is regressive, i.e. rooftop solar is a regressive tax on consumers based on the unfounded notion that solar shifts costs to non-solar customers when exactly the opposite is true. Both Florida and California are seeing attacks on net metering that have the most traction that we’ve seen in years even though any consumer would find it hard to imagine a future where homes can’t build solar. While this would hurt the growth of the market, the reality is that it would harm the grid most of all and the rate base because consumers will self-sustain with storage and not participate in the energy system at all.
- Bloomberg: Musk, Movie Stars Join Fight to Protect California Solar Subsidy
- E&E News: Fla. eyes rooftop solar clampdown
- Solar Power World: White House announces new clean energy plans, including Dept. of Agriculture support of solar in rural communities
- Canary Media: California’s Gov. Newsom says ‘changes need to be made’ to the state’s polarizing net-metering proposal
- Utility Dive: Midwest power plants face shutdown after EPA proposes denying requests to keep using unlined coal ash ponds
- Axios: Global race intensifies for EV raw materials
- PV-Tech: Global Infrastructure Partners invests US$500m in BrightNight to fund project development
- RMI: Local Governments Are Stepping Up Grid Decarbonization in 2022
- PV-Magazine: Lightsource bp closes financing on 135 MW solar project in Arkansas and 345 MW solar project in Louisiana
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