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A right to the Sun?

04 Jan 10 | Commentary

Solar Energy Industries Association thinks so. They are sponsoring an online petition called the Solar Bill of Rights© to call attention to various law makers throughout the country to:

We declare these rights not on behalf of our companies, but on behalf of our customers and our country. We seek no more than the freedom to compete on equal terms and no more than the liberty for consumers to choose the energy source they think best.

Here is a brief list of items this petition hopes to define:

  1. Americans have the right to put solar on their homes or businesses
  2. Americans have the right to connect their solar energy system to the grid with uniform national standards
  3. Americans have the right to Net Meter and be compensated at the very least with full retail electricity rates
  4. The solar industry has the right to a fair competitive environment
  5. The solar industry has the right to equal access to public lands
  6. The solar industry has the right to sell its power across a new, 21st century transmission grid
  7. Americans have the right to buy solar electricity from their utility
  8. Americans have the right to – and should expect – the highest ethical treatment from the solar industry

Sounds good to me. Items 1,2, 4, and 8 are of particular interest to me. Some sort of national solar policy might better define how to accomplish those.

Item 2 is tricky because regulation of the utility companies has been a states issue. Many, if not most states still regulate power companies in the “Natural Monopoly” system. That is to say the state and the utility company recognize the utility is a monoploy and regulate it in such a way the the public benifits (mostly) from the existance of the utility company. Each state has somewhat different circumstances due to there location and the various conditions on the ground. Putting the feds in charge would likely create many new problems and layers of bureaucracy. Which, I don’t know about you, but I like to keep my bureaucracies on the small side.

Via: Clean Technica

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