By Frank Andorka, Senior Correspondent
Steve Hanely over at CleanTechnica reports that a new Consumer Reports’ survey reinforces what most of you have known since you joined the solar industry – renewable energy is popular among Americans.
In words someone like me can appreciate (because I wish I’d written them first), Hanley writes:
The Trump maladministration wants to choke us all with more emissions from coal-fired generating plants, but a survey of 1200 Americans conducted by GfK for Consumer Reports finds the vast majority of Americans want more renewable energy and less power plant pollution. The survey also reveals that plenty of utilities seem to have a credibility issue with their customers. Consumers Union has submitted the results of the survey to the EPA as part of the public comment process on rolling back the Clean Power Plan that ended October 31.
But it’s even better than that. According to the survey, 81% of thsoe surveyed say they want their power plants to produce less pollution, and that even included the four states where the majority of power is produced by coal (those states would be Ohio, Tennessee, Illinois and Virginia). So here’s a news flash: renewable energy is even popular in coal country, something I’ve been telling you since the Kentucky Coal Museum switched over to solar power last year.
But here’s the other finding of the survey that Hanley highlights and that should strike fear into the hearts of utility executives across the country: Consumers don’t trust utilities to do the charge fair prices and provide excellent service. I don’t know why they don’t trust their utilities.
Oh wait, yes I do. It’s because their utilities lie to them all the time, especially when it comes to solar and the fake “cost shift” they are constantly going on about.
The Consumer Reports survey just proves what most of us have known all along. The renewables revolution is coming, and utilities better figure out how to harness that revolution or they will be assigned to the ash heap of history right quick.
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Consumer Reports Survey Finds Most Americans Want More Renewable Energy