October 2015

Solar Benefits all Ratepayers: What some Business Execs are Getting Wrong

October 29, 2015

Executives from six Massachusetts groups that claim to represent the economic interests of Bay State businesses signed onto an October 19th letter asking state lawmakers to limit solar programs by keeping net metering caps in place and cutting compensation and incentive payments in the name of reducing energy costs in Massachusetts. The letter makes a number of false assertions and unsubstantiated cost claims about solar to make their case.

Read their letter HERE.   

House could move on net metering caps soon

October 26, 2015

Encouraging news on net metering caps (see below)!  It looks like House action on the matter could be imminent. Thanks to everyone who has called or e-mailed their legislators in recent weeks.  Your efforts are making a difference!

New York regulators suspend net metering caps

October 22, 2015

Regulators in New York have suspended net metering caps for rooftop solar projects as it completes its Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) process.  According to Utility Dive: 

The Principles of Grid Neutrality

October 9, 2015

Just as net neutrality seeks to maintain a fair and open internet, the concept of grid neutrality emphasizes a fair and open electricity network. Like the internet, the modern electricity grid is the backbone upon which a generation of technologies, services and economies will be built. In order to catalyze this transition and foster innovation, it is paramount that we as a nation provide for, as well as safeguard, the grid’s neutrality.

The Virtuous Cycle Has Begun

October 7, 2015

Bloomberg Business: It has never made less sense to build fossil fuel power plants

Wind power is now the cheapest electricity to produce in both Germany and the U.K., even without government subsidies, according to a new analysis by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF).

Vermont plans for 90% renewable grid

October 2, 2015

A 100% renewable energy future is possible (see state-specific plans here).  Already, Hawaii has set a 100% renewable electricity goal by 2045 and California recently passed legislation that sets a 50% by 2030 renewable target.

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