Rachel Metea
Nevada passes bills to expand rooftop solar, investigate utilities’ pricing
Amid allegations over NV Energy overcharging ratepayers for decades, Nevada passed two bills that will investigate how utilities pass power costs onto customers and expand access to rooftop solar.
Automated solar permitting bill sails through New Jersey Assembly
Bills to remove bottlenecks popped up across the country this session, but New Jersey’s is one of the few that has not yet fallen flat.
Iowa researchers explore how solar panel height, design affects crop yields
Iowa State University is using a $1.8 million grant to study whether higher solar arrays create better growing conditions for horticultural crops and beekeeping production.
House bill could cost 330,000 industry jobs by 2028, SEIA says
Repealing energy incentives through the reconciliation bill could lead to hundreds of thousands of loss jobs, higher energy bills and hundreds of lost factory investments across the country, an analysis released by the Solar Energy Industries Association found.
Rhode Island weighs bills to quash solar incentives, net-metering
Rhode Island lawmakers introduced legislation to place a moratorium on net metering contracts, heat pump subsidies and long-term contracts for purchasing renewable energy, and to repeal the Renewable Energy Growth Program.
Leading threat to farmland is real estate development, not solar, agricultural analysts say
Arkansas could double its total energy generation with solar and still only require a very small fraction of the land to do so, according to analysis by the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture.
Clean energy bill breezes through Hawaii State Legislature
The leading state for residential solar-plus-storage systems passed a bill to further increase its rooftop solar and battery storage installations.
Net metering faces uncertainty in Maine
The Maine Legislature’s committee voted in favor of a bill that deems front-of-the-meter projects ineligible for net-energy billing.
Republican lawmakers retry bill to bring community solar to Ohio
Ohio state representatives reintroduced a bill to legalize community solar after the legislation’s previous versions were left to die in the Senate.
Why Pennsylvania’s efforts to legalize community solar might make a breakthrough
After nearly a decade of failed legislation, a coalition of community solar advocates are making headway in an effort to support community solar in Pennsylvania. Vote Solar’s Elowyn Corby spoke about what makes this year different and why they decided to feel comfortable when the bill was amended to include natural gas.
