Topic: Legislation

Opponents fear the law will send the growing wind and solar industry to neighboring states while Ohio homeowners are stuck boosting old, uneconomical power plants.

On June 26th, Governor Janet Mills signed new legislation to broaden customer access to net metering (known in Maine as net energy billing) and to promote distributed energy generation, including through competitive procurements for long-term contracts with the state’s transmission and distribution utilities.

A bipartisan and bicameral group of lawmakers has introduced a bill to allow clean energy technology companies to form master limited partnerships, a move aimed at boosting private investment.

Michigan regulators approved Consumers Energy's latest integrated resource plan, which will shutter its Karn coal-fired plant by 2023, setting the utility on a course to eliminate coal entirely and by 2040 reduce emissions from power plants by 90%.

Nevada lawmakers on May 23 passed legislation to modernize how electric utility rates are set, directing the Public Utilities Commission to develop regulations enabling a performance-based regime.

In January 2019, the District of Columbia passed the most ambitious clean energy legislation in the nation. However, local climate activists say the hard work is just beginning — they want to know who will lead the DC Green Bank and whether the law will benefit the least-privileged residents of the District.

With just a day left in the legislative session, the state Senate approved a solar energy bill that boosters said will keep South Carolina’s rooftop solar industry in business and help homeowners use panels to save money on power bills.

The popularity of solar energy skyrocketed in South Carolina (SC) with the introduction of net metering in 2014 when the state legislature unanimously passed its landmark energy bill. After the introduction of the Distributed Energy Resources (DER) program, the Palmetto State went from having virtually no solar energy to having an installed capacity of 591 megawatts (MW).

Vastly higher clean energy targets are essential to empower the international community to make the leap to a sustainable future, according to Richard Heinberg, coauthor of “Our Renewable Future: Laying the Path for One Hundred Percent Clean Energy.” In this interview, he delves into the practical challenges involved in the global transition to renewable power sources.

Across the nation, new elected officials have been sworn in this January. They can alter the trajectory of clean energy projects in the years to come. Incoming governors may preside over expanding clean energy markets.

Clean Energy Finance Forum

Topic: Legislation

Ohio Governor Signs Coal and Nuclear Bailout at Expense of Renewable Energy

Maine Enacts New Law to Encourage Net Metering and Long-Term Contracts for Distributed Generation

Congress Pushes for Storage, Renewables to Have Same Private Investment Incentives as Fossil Fuels

Michigan Approves Consumers' IRP Eliminating Coal, Reducing Emissions 90% by 2040

Nevada Follows Hawaii, Moves toward Performance-Based Ratemaking

DC Passed the Most Ambitious Clean Energy Law in the U.S. Now What?

South Carolina Solar Energy Legislation That Could Lower Power Bills Wins Senate Approval

Sleeping Giant: The State of Solar in South Carolina

What Will It Take to Catalyze the Energy Transition?

New Governors Seek the Next Clean Energy Frontier