Last Thursday, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced solar legislation that has sent the solar industry into a hopeful tizzy: his bill, the 10 Million Solar Roofs and 10 Million Gallons of Solar Water Heating Act of 2010, would authorize rebates and other incentives with the aim of supporting up to half the net installed cost—after [...]

Tomorrow, California’s state legislature will vote on lifting the current cap on the amount of energy in the state’s energy portfolio that can come from net-metered solar installations. Set at 2.5 percent, the net metering cap once seemed generous but now seems low–dangerously low, in fact, for the California solar industry. Successful solar incentives have [...]

California solar energy plant developers asked the Renewable Energy Policy Group this past Friday if environmental approval processes could be sped up, since projects are making little to no progress towards their 2010 construction goals–goals that must be reached if the projects are to qualify for specific federal funds. This frustration with the slow pace [...]

When Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R) spoke earlier this week about the need to ramp up clean energy production in the state, she raised a few hackles by emphasizing her interest in nuclear power. It’s not a renewable technology, of course, but it’s emissions-free, and as we all know the list of pros and cons [...]

With ambitious initiatives such as its Solar Stimulus Program and a target of installing 250 megawatts’ worth of solar-generating capacity in the state by 2017, Massachusetts has shown itself to be a vanguard in the U.S. push for solar, and the latest news to emerge from the Commonwealth further bolsters this reputation: having tapped out [...]

Following closely on the heels of Evergreen’s decision to outsource to China, a quartet of legislators representing three different states and both sides of the political spectrum introduced earlier this week a bill intended to bolster solar manufacturing jobs in the United States. A bipartisan piece of legislation supported by the Solar Energy Industries Association, [...]

Arizona US Rep Gabrielle Giffords’s Solar Roadmap Act passed a key committee and will now proceed to the House.