You have the right to make energy from the sun without interference from the utilities.
Towards the end of September 2018, Governor Brown signed Senate Bill 700, which will make it cheaper for you to store your extra solar energy at home in a battery. This way you can use your own free energy at night, instead of buying the utility’s expensive electricity. Solar Rights Alliance members spoke up in force for SB 700, writing, …
Nice feature of Solar Rights Alliance in CleanTechnica today! Read the whole story here. It lays out some of the threats solar users face from utility industry lobbying: “The push for ensuring current solar feed-in regulations remain in place is not some fiction from the far left. Rather, it is a very real need as, even in progressive states like …
Influential solar industry trade paper PV Magazine published a supportive piece about Solar Rights Alliance today. The entire article is worth reading. It does a nice job of outlining our theory of change and who is helping us get off the ground. But in our opinion, this excerpt best captures Solar Rights Alliance: What is also unique about SRA is …
Here’s some tips to troubleshoot your inverter and ensure continually high energy production of your solar panels. Quality solar panels are typically built, designed and installed with the guarantee the panels will produce energy for 25 years. Due to their very low maintenance design, most problems that you find with your system are not caused by the panels. Instead, they …
The folks at Run on Sun have a seminal blog post entitled “I’ve got solar; why is my bill so high?” intended for consumers who are surprised at the size of their end of year energy bill. It’s a good read; check it out here. Note: this is not a product endorsement; we simply agree with the content of the …
Rooftop solar reduces the cost of running the electricity grid. That saves ratepayers real money. Here’s how: When more people in the community generate their own energy at homes and businesses, there is less need to build expensive new power plants, transmission lines and other infrastructure. Those savings are huge for everyone. Solar users will save all ratepayers over $2 …