How’s your town doing on solar?
Curious how your town and county stacks up with others in California on solar? We were, too. So we matched state solar installation and population data and calculated the number of solar installations per capita for every county and town in California.* Figures are accurate as of roughly September. Click to view the full data set including your city and county…
Solar WakeUp Features Solar Rights Alliance
Influential solar newsletter SolarWakeUp featured a Q & A with Solar Rights Alliance executive director Dave Rosenfeld today. It’s a good window into what we’re trying to accomplish. Read the interview here. We’re grateful to SolarWakeUp for the exposure. They asked good questions, about Solar Rights Alliance’s mission and accomplishments, and also how we are building the organization to make…
Solar Rights Alliance featured on The Energy Show podcast
Thanks to Barry Cinnamon of Spice Solar for hosting Solar Rights Alliance director Dave Rosenfeld on his podcast, The Energy Show. On the show, Barry and Dave discuss the threats to rooftop solar, how the electric utilities are behind many of the attacks on solar, and how solar users can push back and win. They also get under the hood…
You spoke, they listened: New tool to help avoid expensive evening rates
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,…
CleanTechnica: Connecting Solar Owners in Support of Solar Rights
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…
PV Magazine: “A voice for the solar consumer: the SRA”
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…
Rooftop Solar Saves Everyone Money. Here’s Why.
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…