Show Us the Money: Obama Proposes Funding Increases for Solar
Our friends in Washington at the Solar Energy Industries Association (www.seia.org) just shared some great news. President Obama’s federal budget for 2011 was released yesterday, and it includes...
View ArticleShining Light on Colorado’s Solar Opportunity
Today, Vote Solar jointly released “Investing in the Sun” with Environment Colorado. The report models the economic and environmental benefits of developing 1,000 megawatts (MW) of solar electricity...
View ArticleColorado solar jobs report makes headlines
In partnership with our friends at Environment Colorado, we recently issued “Investing in the Sun,” a new report estimating the jobs and economic benefits that would result from an increased investment...
View ArticleColorado Solar Bill Awaits Governor Ritter's Signature
Today Governor Ritter is expected to sign into law a bill requiring that 30% of Colorado’s electricity needs be met with renewable energy sources. With the passage of HB 10-1001 Colorado joins...
View ArticleOn the record: Regional policy webinars
Renewable energy policy is moving at breakneck speed all around the country. So we teamed up with Clean Power Finance to give state-by-state policy updates from the regions that are keeping us busiest....
View ArticleIt’s All Local: Strategies and Tools for Driving Solar Costs Down
When you put 75 solar installers, policy makers and advocates in a room and ask them to discuss policies and tactics for reducing the local cost component of solar energy, what do they say? We tried it...
View ArticleKeeping PACE: A national response to lender concerns about green retrofit...
Cities and counties throughout the U.S. are developing new finance programs that support green retrofits in their communities. Called PACE, these programs represent one of the most promising tools...
View ArticleCalling all Californians: Upcoming opportunities to defend your right to go...
Some of California’s utilities are trying to dismantle an important policy that empowers energy consumers to generate their own clean, reliable electricity from the sun. Commonly known as the policy...
View ArticleData not drama: assessing the rate impact of net metering
Vote Solar hosted a webinar this week on a very hot topic – how to assess the costs and benefits of net metering. The well attended webinar focused on efforts completed to date to assess the value of...
View ArticleLook who’s going solar in California
Introduction: Vote Solar’s Annie Carmichael recently sat down with Stan Greschner, Director of the Single-family Affordable Solar Homes Program (SASH) at GRID Alternatives. We learned some surprising...
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