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While You Were Getting Worked Up Over Oil Prices, This Just Happened to Solar

Bloomberg October 29, 2014 By Tom Randall Every time fossil fuels get cheaper, people lose interest in solar deployment. That may be about to change. After years of struggling against cheap natural gas prices and variable subsidies, solar electricity is on track to be as cheap or cheaper than average electricity-bill prices in 47 U.S. states […]

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Duke exec: renewable energy regulations needed

GSA BusinessOctober 18, 2013 By Scott Miller smiller@scbiznews.com Regulators and utilities should move cautiously toward a plan that incorporates renewable energies, particularly solar power, into the mix of electricity delivered to consumers without raising costs, an executive with Duke Energy said Thursday. “Getting the rules right, now, allows the economic impacts of solar to spread

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Why Are Some Big Utilities Embracing Small-Scale Solar Power?

InsideClimate NewsSeptember 12, 2013 By Maria Gallucci, InsideClimate News A handful of U.S. utilities have discovered they can save money by encouraging small rooftop solar projects—the same projects utility industry leaders have insisted were too expensive and unreliable to be practical. The Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) in New York, for instance, is paying developers

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S.C. laws hinder clean energy investment

Columbia Regional Business ReportsAugust 6, 2013 The state has missed out on millions from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Meanwhile, South Carolina’s laws also are blocking projects on Defense Department sites. By Mike Fitts colanews@scbiznews.comPublished Aug. 5, 2013 South Carolina’s laws are holding back growth in promising clean energy fields while other Southeast states

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Yesterday: Big business wins two, small business picks up one

It was a busy day yesterday for the S.C. Small Business Chamber of Commerce.  Two Senate subcommittees and the House Ways and Means Committee held meetings on legislation we supported.  Unfortunately two of these bills did not get the favorable votes we wanted.The morning started out with a Senate subcommittee on S.145, a bill that

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ACTION ALERT!!

Allow 3rd Party Financing of Solar Panels Bill would make solar energy affordable for homes and commercial buildings Don’t let the state’s energy companies do what they did in the S.C. House—stop a bill that will allow 3rd parties to finance solar panels on buildings and sell the electricity to the occupant owners. A public

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Bipartisanship breaks out in SC and US Senates

This week a handful of Republican and Democratic Senators in Columbia and Washington found common ground on two important issues. In Columbia 15 Senators of both parties have introduced legislation to allow a third party to finance and own solar panels on a home or commercial building and sell the electricity to the building owners. 

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Action Alert!!!

   You still have time to kick SC solar industry into high gear Act Now!!  Vote is at 3:00 today The South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce supports H.3346, which provides for a 35% state tax credit for the installation of solar energy equipment in commercial buildings. We believe that this legislation will greatly help

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