Instead of Lobbying, Utilities Could Have Doubled US Solar Capacity
The Investor Responsibility Research Center Institute just released a report analyzing the top 25 US investor-owned electric utilities, and one of the highlights is that these 25 largest utilities collectively spent over $400 million of money (from their ratepayers) lobbying in the past four years. In many cases, this involved lobbying against net metering, renewable energy standards, or incentives for solar energy.
What could that money have bought if instead spent on the things that… Read more…
