Money talks! That’s what you are getting across the Country as the companies interested in making sure solar doesn’t disrupt energy markets, especially their long time monopolies. Those money interests are right here in the solar industry and you are most likely helping fund anti-solar ITC efforts by attending SPI. A year ago, I asked if SPI will have to split up. The reason? The event is put on by SEIA and SEPA, and those interests are no longer aligned in growth of solar. SEPA’s members are mostly utilities and they have spurned SEIA’s request to push for an ITC extension. Don’t buy Julia Hamm’s response about tax status, it is very bad PR on her end. Let’s see how it plays out this year, but there is a rift and SEPA needs to step up and push for an ITC extension or pull out of SPI 2016 and perhaps choose to sponsor EEI’s annual conference.
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- Bloomberg: California Climate Law an $8.6 Billion Coup for Solar Utilities
- Media Matters: The Overlooked Dirty Energy Money Behind Solar Net Metering Battles, And Why It Matters
- PV-Magazine: What the new PM could mean for solar Down Under
- Huffington Post: The Next Solar (r)Evolution
- PV-Tech: Dubai officially opens 800MW PV tender
- CleanTechnica: Ever Greater Share Of New Power From Distributed Solar
- Utility Dive: Sierra Club fights Buffett-owned Pacific Power bid to shorten PURPA contracts
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Have a great day!
Yann