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December 30, 2014 by editor

Heritage’s The Daily Signal Quotes ACI on Solar Panel Scams

Heritage’s The Daily Signal Quotes ACI on Solar Panel Scams

Today’s The Daily Signal, published by the Heritage Foundation, discusses the growing consumer rip off by solar panel leasing contractors.  The piece extensively quotes Steve Pociask of ACI and can be viewed at The Daily Signal.

Filed Under: ENERGY / Environment, Issues, News Tagged With: distributive generation, net metering, solar energy, solar panels

October 4, 2014 by Steve Pociask

Another Tax Subsidy for the Rich

Another Tax Subsidy for the Rich

On the surface, the concept of promoting rooftop solar energy, referred to as net metering, seems like a good idea, but a closer looks shows that it can produce many adverse consequences that lead to higher costs for consumers. Net Metering is a program that allows consumers to generate energy from rooftop solar panels for […]

Filed Under: Blog, ENERGY / Environment, Issues Tagged With: energy, solar, solar energy, solar panels, subsidy, taxes

September 21, 2014 by Steve Pociask

Buyer Beware: Complaints from Rooftops

Buyer Beware: Complaints from Rooftops

Over the past couple of decades, a number of rooftop solar companies have gone into business – often making arrangements to lease solar panels to consumers while collecting subsidies for these systems for themselves. SolarCity – the brainchild of billionaire Elon Musk – has made an especially big name for itself in the world of […]

Filed Under: Blog, Consumer Tips / Health, ENERGY / Environment, Issues Tagged With: fraud, scams, solar energy, solar panels

August 26, 2014 by Steve Pociask

ConsumerGram: The Unintended Consequences of Net Metering

ConsumerGram: The Unintended Consequences of Net Metering

On the surface, the concept of promoting rooftop solar energy seems like a good idea: homeowners are incentivized to buy or lease solar panels; they benefit from reduced reliance on the local utility for electricity; they benefit directly from clean solar energy; and they sell any excess power to the electric utility for credit or […]

Filed Under: Blog, Consumer Tips / Health, ENERGY / Environment, Issues Tagged With: distributive generation, electricity, net metering, solar energy, solar power

August 13, 2013 by Alan Daley

About Those Solar Panels on Your Roof…

As a pragmatist you want to know what solar panels do to your pocketbook. Is a solar project’s lifetime cost lower than the cost of electricity you avoid buying plus electricity you can sell back to the local power company?   You might also want to know if regulators tweaked the power grid prices to subsidize […]

Filed Under: Blog, Consumer Tips / Health, ENERGY / Environment, Issues Tagged With: solar energy, solar panels

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