Huge Legal Victory For Rooftop Solar Power

[ScienceRocks]

Huge Legal Victory For Rooftop Solar Power

If you’ve never heard of the company Eagle Point Solar before, you’re going to hear a lot more now. The Dubuque-based rooftop solar specialist’s biggest installed project to date measures up to only 370 kilowatts, but the company just won a big legal battle that could break the US rooftop solar market wide open in Iowa and beyond.

By clarifying the regulatory standing of non-utility solar installers like Eagle Point, the ruling provides much-needed market certainty in the many US states that don’t currently provide a firm footing for non-utility solar installations, on rooftops or anywhere else, for that matter.

Huge Legal Victory For Rooftop Solar Power | CleanTechnica

 

[RGR]

Huge Legal Victory For Rooftop Solar Power

Rooftop solar doesn't need legal victories. It needs the sun to shine more often.

 

[whitehall]

It's a technical decision that addresses the jurisdictional boundaries of existing power companies. If the junk really worked every building would have solar panels but the sad truth is that it's a federal funded start up company that is doomed to fail simply because there ain't enough room on a typical building for solar panels to do anything but make liberal tenants feel good about themselves.

 

[warf]

It's a technical decision that addresses the jurisdictional boundaries of existing power companies. If the junk really worked every building would have solar panels but the sad truth is that it's a federal funded start up company that is doomed to fail simply because there ain't enough room on a typical building for solar panels to do anything but make liberal tenants feel good about themselves.

This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard about solar power.

Of course it works. I could introduce you to 100 people who get their power from solar, exclusively.

 

[Shanty]

Huge Legal Victory For Rooftop Solar Power

Rooftop solar doesn't need legal victories. It needs the sun to shine more often.

Solar and wind will be good supplementary sources of power, but the smartest thing to do to reduce carbon emissions and pollutants from the air is to have seed money from the Federal government for carbon capture and sequestration systems on new and existing powerhouses. The enviro weenies keep pushing coal as dirty, and then seeing it shipped to China, where it still gets put into the air far dirtier than in the US. We need to see the carrot and stick for cleaning up coal and gas.

Republicans killed carbon cap and trade policies, so they also helped to hurt coal and energy producers.

 

[alang1216]

I have the perfect house for solar panels, I face south and get lots of sun. What I need to go solar is cheap roof tiles that generate electricity that I can then wire into my meter and make it run slower or even backwards. What I don't need is to have large solar panels that heat a fluid that I can then convert to electricity and then store for later use.

 

[Old Rocks]

I have the perfect house for solar panels, I face south and get lots of sun. What I need to go solar is cheap roof tiles that generate electricity that I can then wire into my meter and make it run slower or even backwards. What I don't need is to have large solar panels that heat a fluid that I can then convert to electricity and then store for later use.

I think that you are totally ignorant of modern solar systems. There are roof tile solar setups, and the standard grid tie system works exactly like you said you would like to see it work.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmVtw_v1A_E]How does a grid tied solar electric system work? - YouTube[/ame]

 

[alang1216]

I have the perfect house for solar panels, I face south and get lots of sun. What I need to go solar is cheap roof tiles that generate electricity that I can then wire into my meter and make it run slower or even backwards. What I don't need is to have large solar panels that heat a fluid that I can then convert to electricity and then store for later use.

I think that you are totally ignorant of modern solar systems. There are roof tile solar setups, and the standard grid tie system works exactly like you said you would like to see it work.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmVtw_v1A_E"]How does a grid tied solar electric system work? - YouTube[/ame]

We're getting there but not quite yet. I don't believe my power company will let me feed power to the grid and the cost of the tiles are still too high. I'll wait.

 

[Dot Com]

Huge Legal Victory For Rooftop Solar Power

If you’ve never heard of the company Eagle Point Solar before, you’re going to hear a lot more now. The Dubuque-based rooftop solar specialist’s biggest installed project to date measures up to only 370 kilowatts, but the company just won a big legal battle that could break the US rooftop solar market wide open in Iowa and beyond.

By clarifying the regulatory standing of non-utility solar installers like Eagle Point, the ruling provides much-needed market certainty in the many US states that don’t currently provide a firm footing for non-utility solar installations, on rooftops or anywhere else, for that matter.

Huge Legal Victory For Rooftop Solar Power | CleanTechnica

sounds like a win-win situation.