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Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute blogs on the RMI website about the disinformation campaign focusing on renewable energy. Lovins cites a report that shows only 10 percent of articles focusing on renewables even contained comment from a spokesperson from the renewable energy industry.  

Eran Mahrer, formerly Director of Renewable Energy at APS and now the Executive Vice President of Research & Strategy at the Solar Electric Power Association, writes in a recent blog for Renewable Energy World, that utilities and renewable energy advocates seem to be talking past each other in the daytime summer drama known as net metering. "Unfortunately, it seems as though the only discussions receiving attention these days are the "battle cries" or an "us versus them" mentality. Those discussions are carefully drawing lines in the sand - aiming for popular opinion and policymakers to help cement those positions.

The latest debate in Arizona over solar energy has caught the eye of investment guru/sage The Motley Fool. In an August 7 article "The Fool" writes: "Should solar owners have to pay something for use of the grid? Maybe, because the grid does offer a service, but there are auxiliary benefits that serve the public's best interest, such as lower fuel consumption, reduced stress on existing transmission and distribution lines, new jobs, and more. Some would argue that these factors should be weighed heavily, especially in an area where a company like APS is given a government approved monopoly. It also doesn't help that APS is currently asking for the world instead of reasonable fees for solar owners."

Former Prescott City Council member and Republican state legislator, Lucy Mason, writes in a Prescott Courier Op-Ed piece that the APS proposed net-metering rule change is a win-lose proposition that must be rejected.