Friday, February 12, 2010

New Bill Would Create 10 Million Solar Roofs Across USA

New Bill Would Create 10 Million Solar Roofs Across US

by Brian Merchant, Brooklyn, New York on 02. 5.10

A great new bill was introduced to Congress yesterday (how often do you get to write a sentence like that these days?). Authored by Bernie Sanders (I-VT), it would create incentives and tax rebates for solar roofs and solar water heaters. The bill aims to get 10 million solar roofs and 200,000 solar heaters up and running--producing a total of 30,000 megawatts--over the next 10 years. Quite frankly, this is a very, very good idea.


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