One of the big reasons that the United States lags behind other countries is that electricity is unusually cheap here, so it makes less sense on a financial basis for someone to buy rooftop solar. But this is changing.
A three-year pilot spurred by 2019 legislation, the Dominion Energy program offers weatherization services and solar panels to qualified customers free of charge.
Solar panels are a wonderful way to capture the sun’s energy for electric power. Another way to use solar energy, fast-gaining traction around the world, is to drive chemical reactions with it and create fuels.
The Idaho Public Utilities Commission rejected a proposed settlement that would have allowed Idaho Power to cut payments to solar customers from 10 cents per kilowatt hour to 4.4 cents over 10 years.
