Listen up lawmakers: Americans overwhelmingly support solar power
We spend our days advocating for smart solar policy because we believe that harnessing the sun for more of our power is the better path forward. Turns out plenty of our fellow Americans feel the same...
View ArticleBest. Quarter. Ever. Let’s make sure its not the last.
The story of American solar power has been one of stunning success by just about any metric. Just yesterday, SEIA reported that the industry had a whopper of a third quarter: 449 megawatts of new...
View ArticleNew life to PACE
News in the ongoing effort to restore PACE, the promising clean energy financing program that ran into hurdles put up by FHFA. NRDC (here and here) and Forbes have the backstory details, but the short...
View ArticleHave you sent your letter to FHFA on PACE yet?
As a result of a lawsuit, a federal judge has required FHFA to conduct a public rulemaking on their actions to derail PACE energy efficiency and renewable energy retrofit programs. This is a great...
View ArticleMake the case for PACE
Remember PACE, the popular and promising energy financing model that was launching nationally–until Fannie & Freddie and the Federal Housing and Finance Authority derailed it? Well, here’s your...
View Article2012 Solar Champion Awards
Every year we celebrate and encourage exceptional solar and renewable leadership by giving Solar Champion Awards. Our 2012 winners are…drumroll, please…: Jon Wellinghoff, Chairman of the Federal...
View ArticleMichigan’s RPS ballot initiative, and clean energy in the elections
Both Grist and AWEA cover the recent Michigan ballot initiative to raise the state’s renewable portfolio standard to 25%. It was a promising, important measure…and despite seeing similar renewable...
View ArticleWonk Alert: FERC Interconnection Proposed Rule
In response to a petition from SEIA, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) initiated a process to reform the rules for small projects to connect to the grid. Earlier in the process, Vote...
View ArticleThe PACE soap opera continues: Take action for All My Children!
It seems that soap operas did not, in fact, go away after the 80s. Because the ongoing saga of efforts to establish Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing programs play like an energy wonk’s...
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