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Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico solar customers score a win in fight over ‘abusive’ contracts

By Eliván Martínez-Mercado / Centro de Periodismo Investigativo

The oversight agency affirms that consumers can turn to it to claim their rights and orders the Texas corporation to establish a protocol to disclose complete information about its services. It also allows customers to object invoices. Meanwhile, Puerto Rican company Maximo Solar Industries sues and accuses the Texas company of establishing a monopoly.

Maine

Solar advocates look to repeal Maine’s ‘fundamentally unjust’ solar rules

By Bill Opalka

Gross metering charges solar customers for power they generate regardless whether it ever touches the grid.

New Hampshire

Concord hopes 100 percent pledge will be contagious in New Hampshire

By Bill Opalka

The state’s capital city adopted a 100 percent renewable pledge last year and hopes that others will follow.

Future Energy Jobs Act

Solar seen as bright career path at Illinois community colleges

By Lauren Robinson

Illinois’ Future Energy Jobs Act included funding for solar training more accessible to lower-income residents.

agriculture

Renewable energy growing among Vermont’s animals and crops

By Bill Opalka

Despite some promising experiments, a new state tax policy could make it harder to pair farming and solar.