THE BIPARTISAN APPEAL OF SOLAR

Tea party, environmentalists partner to push solar energy

Christopher Martin, November 12, 2013 (Bloomberg News via The Buffalo News)

"…[T]ea party Republicans stand together with Sierra Club environmentalists…on their support for solar energy against the monopoly power of traditional utilities in some of the most conservative U.S. states…A Georgia splinter group known as the Green Tea Coalition…is reviving the Republican link with the Sierra Club that dates back more than a century to President Theodore Roosevelt’s work to protect the environment. Its influence…is a danger for utilities such as Southern Co.’s Georgia Power unit and Pinnacle West Capital Corp.’s Arizona Public Service, which are resisting the spread of solar energy as a threat to their business model…What’s uniting the environmental and Republican groups is the view that plunging prices for solar panels may mean consumers don’t need to buy all their electricity from utilities and their giant centralized generation plants…” click here for more

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