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it is very important to show your support for the Individual Tax Credit for Solar within the next 48 hours. Please visit the following link and send your representatives an email.

http://act.seia.org/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1865&ea.campaign.id=40273&ea.url.id=427169

Tell Congress: Extend the Solar ITC! Momentum is building in the U.S. Senate to extend a long list of important, but expiring tax credits. We need your help to make sure the solar Investment Tax Credit (ITC) is included. The ITC has already created 150,000 American jobs and pumped more than $70 billion into the U.S. economy. Write to y…

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/08/us/white-house-solar-plan-aims-at-low-and-middle-income-people.html?_r=0

White House Solar Plan Aims at Low- and Middle-Income People The administration will announce an initiative to make solar energy more accessible to Americans at lower income levels.

https://www.minds.com/blog/view/456458149147185152/nobel-prize-winner-among-over-100-scientists-calling-for-oil-sands-moratorium

Nobel Prize Winner Among Over 100 Scientists Calling For Oil Sands Moratorium Claire Bernish June 12, 2015 (ANTIMEDIA) Over 100 esteemed scientists from across North America and in many diverse fields announced their rare consensus on Wednesday in calling for a moratorium on new oil sands development with the launch of a...

Yet another example that Big is not the way to go for renewable. Even if the energy companies want you to believe it is working. We need a new paradigm. And Solar Stripes is looking for partners. http://www.wsj.com/articles/high-tech-solar-projects-fail-to-deliver-1434138485

High-Tech Solar Projects Fail to Deliver The $2.2 billion Ivanpah solar-thermal power plant in California and other high-tech solar projects aren't living up to promises their backers made about how much electricity they could generate.

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a rather interesting graph:
http://www.greentechmedia.com/research/report/global-pv-pricing-outlook-2015

Global PV Pricing Outlook 2015 - GTM Research Driven by the emergence of a strong set of regionally diverse country markets in the last two years, the global PV supply chain overcame the stress of overcapacity, now benefiting from a healthy supply-demand market. Though supply-demand stability and input cost reduction are expected to continue in…

Good News. Because we all need more of that. http://blog.ucsusa.org/facts-about-the-clean-power-2020-benchmarks-for-reducing-carbon-emissions-751?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=fb&utm_campaign=fb

The Surprising Facts About the Clean Power Plan: Most States Are Already On Track to Meet 2020... A new analysis released today by UCS shows that most states are already making progress toward cutting carbon emissions from power plants by shifting from coal-fired power to cleaner generation sources like renewable energy, energy efficiency, and natural gas. As a result of recent decisions and sta…

http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/what-are-the-most-pressing-issues-facing-public-utility-commissioners

Inside the Minds of Regulators: How Different States Are Dealing With Distributed Energy :... Views from the front lines of California, Texas, Minnesota and Arizona

http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Video-Breakdown-Why-Utility-Owned-Rooftop-Solar-Is-So-Controversial

Video Breakdown: Why Utility-Owned Rooftop Solar Is So Controversial : Greentech Media Rewired, a new GTM video series, reviews both sides of the contentious issue.