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When Solar Rights Are Under Attack, We Fight Back

Adam Browning | July 2 2020

When a shadowy group launched an opportunistic attack that could strip away solar rights in every state, Vote Solar leapt into action. We immediately mobilized a nationwide, bi-partisan campaign---with astounding results. On April 14th, the New England Ratepayers Association (NERA), a secretive special interest group, filed a petition with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) ...

Vote Solar Applauds Duke Energy Florida’s New Community Solar Program’s Focus on Low-Income Customers

Katie Chiles Ottenweller | July 2 2020

Duke Energy Florida filed a proposed new Clean Energy Connection (CEC) Program with the Florida Public Service Commission that will increase access to solar energy for Florida residents. The current health and economic crisis is exacerbating the financial stresses of Florida’s hardworking families. Duke’s new solar program will help alleviate the undue burden of electric ...

Eversource, Solar and Low-income Advocates Submit New Guidelines for Solar Program

Nathan Phelps | July 2 2020

Unique collaboration supports expanding solar access to low-income families in Massachusetts Boston, MA -- Eversource Energy, the Low-Income Weatherization and Fuel Assistance Program Network, Nexamp, Vote Solar, the City of New Bedford, People Acting in Community Endeavors, and National Consumer Law Center have all signed on to comments submitted to the Department of Energy Resources ...

Celebrating Juneteenth

Daryle Sharpe | June 18 2020

As we move towards recognizing Juneteenth as a national holiday, it is imperative that we learn about its history & significance. For far too long, African American history has been viewed as independent of American history. That must end. Juneteenth is not the day that enslaved people were liberated. This day marks the day that ...

Advancing Resilient Clean Energy in California

Ed Smeloff | June 17 2020

Experts are predicting an especially dangerous California fire season this year, making it likely that many Californians will once again face extended power shutoffs as utilities try to prevent the ignition of fires from their equipment. In a recent decision, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) took some key steps to make it easier for ...

Comments demonstrate strong support for local control of solar policies

Hilary Lewis | June 16 2020

Solar customers, state regulators across the country ask FERC to maintain states rights Washington, DC -- Solar United Neighbors and Vote Solar submitted over 20,000 public comments in support of states rights to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) today, marking the close of the public comment period in Docket EL20-42. The New England Ratepayers ...

Pride is a Protest, Stonewall was a Riot

Sean Garren | June 16 2020

Ugh. 2020, am I right? And yet, I find some reasons for hope. This Pride month has been quite different than the usual - just as this year has been so, so different from the usual. For me, I miss marching through Boston in my brightest clothing, waving my Progress Pride flag, hanging out on ...

450 Environmental, Energy Justice Groups Urge Federal Commission to Reject Threat to Solar Net Metering

Hilary Lewis | June 15 2020

Letter Demands That Net Metering Remain in State Jurisdiction to Ensure Clean, Resilient Energy Future WASHINGTON— More than 450 environmental and energy-justice, faith and labor groups urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission today to reject the New England Ratepayers Association’s petition seeking federal jurisdiction over state solar policies. An April petition filed by the secretive ...

Our Commitment to Racial Justice

Adam Browning | June 3 2020

As a predominately white organization, existing at the confluence between the solar industry and the environmental movement — two historically white institutions — we understand the importance of being visible in our commitment to the fight against structural racism. Black lives matter. The murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, David McAtee, and too ...

Celebrating Those Who Enriched Our Lives While Working to Enrich the Lives of Others

Pari Kasotia | May 28 2020

During my first-ever trip to the university bookstore, the store clerk, seeing my public policy books, asked: “Do you plan to become an environmental advocate?” That moment defined, for me, what the American Dream truly means – that an immigrant can dream of being a part of one of the great democracies in the world ...

Relief then Recovery

Adam Browning | May 21 2020

Let’s talk about solar in the time of Covid-19. We believe the path out of this crisis is twofold: Help those most impacted and most vulnerable now. Over the longer term, catalyze a green recovery to make our communities stronger and more resilient. The economic collapse is devastating communities across the country. Electricity is the ...

Poll: 65% of Arizonans Want a 100% Clean Energy Standard, Even During Pandemic

Art Terrazas | May 19 2020

Poll finds broad support for proposal currently pending at Arizona Corporation Commission Phoenix, AZ -- 65% of Arizonans favor 100% clean energy by 2050, a new poll by Public Policy Polling commissioned by solar rights group Vote Solar found. The Arizona Corporation Commission is currently considering whether to increase the state’s renewable energy requirement from ...

Groups Urge Expansion of Utility Shutoff Moratorium During Covid-19 Crisis

Tyler Fitch | May 19 2020

New Data Show Existing Moratorium Has Helped More than 425,000 N.C. Families Maintain Water and Power in their Homes Raleigh, N.C. — Nearly three dozen public interest and social justice organizations today sent a letter to Governor Roy Cooper urging him to extend and strengthen the existing moratorium on utility disconnections and late payment fees ...

New Playbook to help modernize our distribution grid

Ed Smeloff | May 8 2020

The Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) and GridLab, allies of Vote Solar in promoting the growth of solar, battery storage and other distributed energy technologies, released a toolkit for clean energy advocates on how to respond to utility grid modernization proposals. Called “A Playbook for Modernizing the Distribution Grid,” the 18 page report offers guidance ...

CPUC Makes Landmark Decision Supporting Community-Scale Renewable Energy

Ed Smeloff | May 7 2020

Today, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) unanimously voted to offer a new program to promote community-scale renewable energy projects of 20 megawatts or less. The new program was created to bring California back into compliance with the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA), a federal law that promotes competition in the electricity industry. “This ...

CA's local energy organizations can help ensure reliability while decarbonizing the grid

Ed Smeloff | May 4 2020

Vote Solar is joining together with a broad coalition of environmental and clean energy organizations in urging the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to change a proposal that would effectively exclude local community energy providers from procuring local reliability resources, like storage paired with solar and instead give that responsibility to Southern California Edison (SCE) ...

COVID-Caused Utility Bill Debt Projected to Reach $26 Billion Nationwide in 4 Months

Tyler Fitch | April 30 2020

Washington, DC - The economic devastation of the coronavirus pandemic is projected to plunge 20% of families into utility bill debt over the next four months as layoffs and other economic losses continue throughout the country. The average household pays more than $250 per month for critical utilities, and over a four month period of ...

Vote Solar Finds Proposed El Paso Electric Gas Plant Expansion Unnecessary

Rick Gilliam | April 30 2020

Las Cruces, NM -- El Paso Electric has miscalculated and mismanaged its electricity resources, leading it to the false conclusion that it needs an additional gas turbine at its Newman Generating Station in El Paso, TX to meet peak demand and load growth, finds solar advocacy group Vote Solar in testimony submitted to the New ...

REPORT: COVID-19 and the Utility Debt Crisis

Misha | April 29 2020

Nearly 25 million families may be unable to pay their utility bills due to COVID-19's economic impacts. Here's the size of this growing crisis and what we can do about it. COVID-19’s public health and economic crises are already impacting our everyday lives: Since mid-March, 26 million U.S. households have lost their jobs, and over ...

California Will Dramatically Undercount Savings from Customer-Driven Clean Energy

Susannah Churchill | April 27 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has many of us thinking about the systems we depend on and how we can protect them during times of crisis. When California families and small businesses invest in rooftop solar and onsite batteries as well as other demand response technologies, they make the power grid safer, more affordable and more resilient ...

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