This practice, called “net metering,” helps cut utility bills and shortens the payback period for solar installation costs.
But what if you don’t own a home, or can't afford solar panels?.
And when you contract with a company to install solar panels, you do your part to create jobs.
In statehouses all over the country, there's a growing movement by industry front groups to undermine net metering and other renewable energy incentives.
This state-level push parallels another front at the federal level, where the Trump administration is unabashedly waging war on renewables.
Apparently career energy experts at the Department of Energy aren't concerned with the ideological preferences of their political appointee overlords.
Another purple state, Nevada, got rid of net metering — but then reversed course and reinstated it under pressure. »