2022 Innovation Issue: Indiana riding a wave of solar. Can it keep up the pace?

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4 thoughts on “2022 Innovation Issue: Indiana riding a wave of solar. Can it keep up the pace?

  1. Shocked. SHOCKED…that this backward state is finally doing a good, logical, progressive thing. Keep it up IN. Maybe one day, the smart people will overcome the dumb majority. Small steps but keep it up. While I’m at it…let me remind you that IN led the nation on Red Flag laws. Hopeful for the future.

  2. The whole “unsightly” argument needs to go. I personally know people that sold there house just to move away from a solar project. People are so afraid of the future, technology, and change.

  3. It’s too bad that the statehouse is so anti-consumer – all these corporate solar developments are great, but the state has made it incredibly difficult for rooftop solar to flourish as Net Metering expires this month. Utilities love this, since they get to sell you electricity and then buy back your solar power at a fraction of the cost and sell it full price to your neighbors.

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