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The November
Rewind
During November the Arizona Solar Center Facebook Page was busy following the net metering
debate at home and across the country. The Arizona
Corporation Commission's Monthly Open Meeting focused on Net
Metering. More than a thousand people showed up for the meeting
in downtown Phoenix. In the end, the ACC implemented a small fee
on new rooftop solar homeowners but left the net metering
mechanism untouched. See some of the news you may
have missed in our November Rewind presented below.
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Compromise in
Arizona Defers A Solar Power Fight
In
voting to impose a modest charge on new residential solar customers,
Arizona's power regulators have ended, for the moment, a bitter fight
between the rooftop solar industry and the state's main electric
utility.
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The Dirtiest
Battle in Clean Energy Heats Up
Across the
U.S., utilities are squaring off against solar in what may be the
dirtiest fight in clean energy. In one corner is the industry behind
the electrical grid as we've known it, more or less, for a century.
The challenger, still a pipsqueak in terms of market share-less than
1 percent of U.S. power-is rooftop solar.
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Exposure Taking
A Toll On Arizona Utility Monopolies
The
Arizona Republic exposed the company's hiring of lobbyists that had
proposed corrupt tactics to sway the ACC in the monopoly's favor and
funneling money to non-profits posing as national organizations whose
sole purpose was to win the public relations war in
Arizona..
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Arizona
Utilities Cash Went to ACC Campaigns
Three Republican candidates for the board that
regulates utilities benefited from contributions by two of the
state's largest energy companies, although company officials said
they were unaware of the donations.
Read more.
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Communications
Director
Arizona Solar Energy Center
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