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Update: AB 327 Approved by CA Senate
California’s much-watched utility rate reform bill cleared its final major hurdle in the Legislature yesterday, gaining approval on the Senate floor with a resounding 33-5 vote. This follows months of...
View ArticleWhy the latest California net metering cost-effectiveness study just doesn’t...
There’s been some ado about the CPUC’s recent release of a draft California Net Energy Metering Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation. This study was flawed to begin with (we’ll talk more about that below) and...
View ArticleGovernor Brown Signs California’s AB 327 Into Law
Today, Governor Brown signed into law AB 327, a comprehensive rate reform bill authored by Assemblymember Perea. AB 327 creates more certainty for Californians who want to go solar, ensuring rooftop...
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Rethinking Utility Business Plans: Utilities, Regulators & Distributed Solar...
Record growth in rooftop solar and other distributed clean energy resources has prompted a national conversation about the future of the electricity business. While utilities increasingly view customer...
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Coalition for Solar Rights has a new home on the internet
It’s an exciting time in the electricity world. Affordable solar is offering American homes, schools and businesses a viable alternative to utility power — and consumers are choosing solar in record...
View ArticleHelp us stop the utility power grab in Colorado
Solar is helping Colorado families, schools and businesses take charge of their power supply and their electricity bills like never before. This private investment is helping build a cleaner, safer and...
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Arizona Stands Up for Solar Rights
In a victory of David vs Goliath proportions, policymakers in Arizona stood up for its citizens by rejecting an attempt from the state’s largest utility to squash rooftop solar. Five months after...
View ArticleSolar fee defeated in Georgia
Another win for team solar! Georgia consumers and solar businesses won a big victory last week with the state’s major utility, Georgia Power, stripping a proposed solar fee from its current rate case....
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Poll: Xcel Energy’s anti-solar proposal is a nonstarter for Coloradans
A new poll released today shows that an overwhelming majority (78%) of Coloradans support the state’s existing net metering program, an important rooftop solar policy that’s being targeted by the...
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2, 4, 6, 8, Colorado Rooftop Solar’s Really Great!
Yesterday nearly 300 Coloradans converged in Denver to oppose a proposal from Xcel Energy to roll back one of the state’s most successful solar programs, net metering. The energetic crowd braved...
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The Desolation of Smog (with apologies to Tolkien)
Remember that scene in The Lord of the Rings when the camera pans back from the bad wizard’s tower, and you get a view of a pit, lit by hellfire and seemingly bottomless, which is just churning out...
View Article5 Reasons for New York Solar Greatness
For more than 5 years, Vote Solar and our partners have tirelessly advocated for big, bold solar policy in New York State. Today, we’re thrilled to see that vision becoming reality! Just this week, the...
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Tweet this CO!
Xcel Energy is trying to change the rules on customers who go solar by weakening one of the state’s most important solar rights: net metering. Vote Solar and our partners are on the case, working hard...
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CPUC petition: Stand by California’s solar customers!
It’s a new year! Time for fresh starts and welcome changes, but one thing that should NOT change is fair credit for California’s solar customers. California’s PUC is beginning the process of...
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Kansas Utilities Attempt to Rollback Net Metering
With costs continuing to fall, solar energy is helping Kansas families, schools and businesses take charge of their power supply and their electricity bills like never before. This private investment...
View ArticlePower Industry Quote of the Month
Earlier this week, former Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers caught our attention with his EnergyBiz interview about what he’d do differently if he was starting over in the power business today: “I’d want the...
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Raise the roof on solar in Massachusetts
With its innovation economy and leading energy policies, Massachusetts has been a bright spot of solar growth. In fact, solar has proven so popular in Massachusetts that the state met its 250 MW goal...
View Article50,000 Californians Petition PUC to Stand Strong for Rooftop Solar
With the California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) set to make a critical decision about the future of rooftop solar in the state, more than 50,000 Californians have petitioned the PUC not to change...
View ArticleAPS Attempts to Reduce Solar Energy Goals in Arizona
UPDATE: (2/6) – At today’s ACC meeting, the Commissioners unanimously voted NOT to approve APS’s proposal to eliminate the DG carve-out. Within the “Findings of Fact” issues by the ACC, the Commission...
View ArticleWhere’s the real utility leadership?
Yesterday, the utility trade association EEI and NRDC released a Joint Statement to State Utility Regulators that has created some attention for being a purported “kumbaya” moment in the debate around...
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