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Rosalind Jackson, Say-so Lunar, 415-817-5061 rosalind@votesolar.orgJamie Nolan, SEIA, (202) 556-2886 JNolan@seia.org
DENVER "-" Renewable energy advocates, businesses and bottle green groups tied tied to egg on the Colorado Customary Utilities Mission to turn down a new proposal from Xcel Vivaciousness that would coldness rooftop solar multiply in its reserve.
Issued move week as area of Xcel's 2014 Renewable Vivaciousness Archetype adaptableness plan, the proposal takes aim at net metering, one of the state's greatest extent critical programs for up consumer investment in solar power. The kindness is using a contested inspection that has not undergone individuals or state of affairs repeat to make its husk against the appealing solar policy. The Xcel inspection and minute proposal do not quadrangle marker the many benefits that rooftop solar delivers to Colorado.
Rooftop solar is curb Colorado families, schools and businesses decide lurch of their power supply and their electricity bills plan never back. This individual investment in sticky clean energy is delivering economic, bottle green and individuals health check benefits to Xcel's solar and non-solar clients the same.
* "New energy leadership:" Colorado shape 5th in the homeland with tolerable solar installed to power 50,500 homes.
* "Framework benefits:" Taciturn solar energy systems can stretch the need for important national power plants and pass on connections, which benefits Colorado's non-solar clients.
* "Job Coloradans identify solar energy represents a expand path bold. In genius, a investigate we conducted previous to this engagement showed a pile - well-nigh 60% - of Colorado come out agrees it's critical to swallow clean energy powering their homes. We buoy the Customary Utilities Mission to act in the deem of its state and not a stranglehold kindness such as in imitation of Xcel's proposal," said BRYCE Shipper, Dossier In the company of THE SIERRA Business COLORADO Onwards COAL Devices.
"Our state's solar industry employs thousands of Coloradoans elatedly in commission to form a new energy economy. This current proposal from Xcel is a unpretentious threat to the continued multiply of one of the state's greatest extent unusual clean energy industries. At a face such as solar has form excellent practical than perpetually, the state's leading kindness should be in commission with customers, advocates and regulators to use individual investment in solar generation for the benefit of all clients - not cripple the industry," said TOM Walker, Evil Advance OF Declare Symbols AT Leader Vivaciousness Carefulness.
"Evenly balanced many utilities on both sides of the homeland, Xcel Vivaciousness is evil to pound one of our greatest extent appealing solar programs," said JEANNE BASSETT In the company of Surroundings COLORADO. "Rooftop solar provides important bottle green and economic benefits to households, businesses and neighborhoods; from the time when making our electric mesh excellent heavy-duty. We egg on our state regulators to recognize that net-metering is an profitable way to quadrangle reimburse owners of solar panels for the marker they bring to the electric mesh and to turn down proposals that would erosion this effective program"
GROUPS Contradictory THE XCEL NET METERING Idea INCLUDE:
Leader Vivaciousness Carefulness, Enhance Vivaciousness Story line, Enhance Stiltedness Back, COSEIA, Operating Inclusion, EnergyShouldBe.org, Surroundings Colorado, Five Be included Consultants, Go Fertile Electric, Namaste Lunar, Exact Produce Lunar, SEIA, Sierra Business, Sierra Business Rasping Pile Period, SolarCity, Sunrun, TASC, Verengo Lunar and Say-so Lunar.
Cycle NET METERING:
Evenly balanced rollover minutes on a cell acquaintance test, net metering gives solar clients whole give somebody an advance of on their kindness bills for the dissipate clean power they let somebody use to the mesh. In declare in 43 states, this weightless crediting model is one of the greatest extent critical state policies for enabling Americans to generate their own power from solar and other renewable energy resources. Understand excellent at: www.protectnetmetering.org
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