If there was ever a time to get into solar advocacy, now is the time to make your move. Following Rhone Resch’s resignation at SEIA, Jane Weissman from IREC and Richard Lawrence from NABCEP have also retired from their posts. Thus far only the post at IREC has been filled internally by Larry Sherwood, the current COO. Searches for SEIA and NABCEP are starting to move forward according to sources and I would love to know what your thoughts are on this topic. Next week, we can do a feedback forum on the CEOs of companies that ‘resigned’.
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Newsflash! Net metering is good for consumers. You don’t have to take my word for it, listen to the experts hired by utility commissions and the non-partisan Brookings Institute. Yesterday, another report was put out by SolarCity and NRDC that reiterated the benefit to Nevada consumers. That’s why I started the SolarPledge last year to push for the ITC extension and keeping full net metering in place around the Country. All this talk about rate design and cost shifting is fancy PR talk by EEI and the utilities that feel threatened by solar. Their problem is inaction however, DG solar in NV would have been a minor blip on the radar but NV Energy’s attitude caused MGM to leave and take 5% of its load with it. The other IOUs should be worried about that instead.
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Time for some policy rounds ups. In Nevada, the Governor’s solar task force is meeting on Thursday to review the recommendation about grandfather net metering. Ohio continues the destruction of a solar market with great potential beyond the freeze of the RPS, thanks Kasich! New Hampshire doubled the cap from 50mw to 100mw and the cap is about to be reached; one day people will realize that society wants MORE solar. And North Korea loves itself some off-grid solar, or ungrid solar, since they don’t really have a grid or electronics or freedom. Don’t forget that you can send confidential tips anonymously through the front page of the website, it’s an important part of moving our industry forward.
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And this is what the future looks like. Late last week, MGM filed with the NV Utility Commission their plan to leave NV Energy as a generation customer. They will pay a one-time $90million departure fee and will go find its own power. The public comment on why is simple: "It is our objective to reduce MGM’s environmental impact by decreasing the use of energy and aggressively pursuing renewable energy sources.” This is another blow to Buffett’s NV Energy which has been using its political clout to kill off solar in the State but becoming a transmission and distribution utility is inevitable.
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