Morning Brief: Net metering still under attack by utilities and institutional corruption
Also in the brief: Solar in schools
Morning Brief: Ex-DOE Secretary Rick Perry’s natural gas scam fails, Net metering at risk in Florida
Also in the brief: Jacked-up vendor curves, and Major League Soccer goes solar.
Morning Brief: Utilities battle net metering in Michigan, Indiana and California, gas industry battles electrification everywhere
Also in the brief: The never-ending net-metering battle. Maine gets a 25-MW solar plant.
DC citizen wins increase in rooftop solar limit to 200% of past usage
States like California whose laws say residential rooftop solar must be “intended primarily” for self-consumption could join Washington, D.C. in increasing their limit, says D.C. resident David Roodman. Generation in excess of consumption will be compensated at the wholesale rate in Washington.
Breaking: FERC dismisses petition by shadowy group to end net metering
More than 450 organizations, 57,000 individuals and 37 states submitted comments opposing the NERA petition that could have ended the net metering program that has helped the residential and commercial solar industry to grow over the last decade.
SEIA calls on FERC to dismiss the petition to end net metering
The Solar Energy Industries Association makes the case for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to dismiss the petition, solely on legal grounds. A filing by Solar United Neighbors, Vote Solar and other groups makes a legal case and also rebuts the petition’s claims about net metering.
450 environmental, energy justice groups urge FERC to reject threat to net metering
Letter demands that net metering remain in state jurisdiction to ensure clean, resilient energy future.
Morning Brief: Renewables continue to break records despite Covid-19, beyond net metering
Also in the brief: net metering under attack, Clir Renewables’ new asset optimization platform, Roll-A-Rack is seeking beta testers and more.
Morning Brief: California sets example for community solar, transparent graphene electrodes for PV cells
Also in the brief: The never ending saga of Arkansas utilities battling their 2,320 net metering customers, Atom Power raises $17.8 million for a solid-state circuit breaker for commercial and industrial buildings.
Florida man takes FPL to court, alleging the utility acts like a net metering regulator
Achim Ginsberg-Klemmt has filed an appeal against the denial of a petition to improve the net-metering regulations in Florida. He alleges the company’s 115% generation policy, requirement of insurance on larger residential projects and “As-Available-Energy” rates disincentivizes large residential solar.
