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Top 10 Women of Solar

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

In this vision, GRID Alternatives , a non-profit solar installer, was formed in 2004. Looking at real-world economic challenges to solar power, GRID Alternatives takes a broader approach to solar that has helped set the stage for large-scale solar adoption worldwide. Mack Robinson College of Business.

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Solar Net Metering Under Threat as Shadowy Group Demands Intervention in State Policies

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” In other words, NERA is asking FERC to assert control over all state net metering programs, which pay customers for the energy they don't consume on-site, but feed back to the power grid. FERC has addressed net energy metering before in decisions in 2001 and in 2009, Peskoe said.