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link: http://www.takepart.com/article/2016/04/27/sunny-states-sabotaging-solar-energy [takepart.com]

"The 10 states account for more than 35 percent of the total rooftop solar potential in the contiguous United States but have just 6 percent of rooftop capacity, the report said, citing data from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory."
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"Environmentalists say impediments to rooftop solar make it difficult for the United States to meet fossil-fuel emission reductions established by the Paris climate change accord, which 175 world leaders signed at the United Nations on April 22."
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“Sixty percent of all installed solar capacity in the United States have been done by utilities [and] nearly all of that came from large-scale installations.
That’s probably because rooftop solar is not as profitable."
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“Under most net metering policies, utilities are required to buy this power at the full retail rate, even though it would cost them less to produce the electricity themselves,” David Owen, executive vice president of the Edison Electric Institute, said in February.

No free sun for you(tm)!

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