Solar Nation

27 Sep 07 | General Business, Solar Electric, Solar Hot Water

I found this website by accident when I was looking up the Solar Energy Industries Association web site. It is called Solar Nation and is a policy group that puts together information about pending federal legislation. From there website:

Solar Nation will speak up to advance the use of renewable — especially solar — energy by encouraging policy change, informing political leaders and candidates about solar power, and helping to shape policy platforms at the local, state and federal level. Solar Nation will also speak out, not only against the competing use of dirty and dangerous fossil fuels or nuclear power, but also in opposition to lobby-influenced legislation or policy that favors such energy choices.

This is the type of presence that is needed to keep the energy issues front and center with Congress. The only way we can move ahead with solar, especially photovoltiacs, is to have subsidies to help defray the large initial costs of a solar system. This is because competing energy, such as coal and oil, also get huge subsidies from the federal government.

If you are in the renewable energy industry, or are thinking about getting into it, it is important to be involved in the policy end of things. The more people that write to their state and federal legislators about renewable energy, the more those legislators will pay attention to what we want.

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