Victory! Both of the I HEART PV campaign’s spring goals accomplished! NET METERING and the NYC SOLAR PROPERTY TAX ABATEMENT to become law!

EXPANDED NET METERING and the NEW YORK CITY SOLAR PROPERTY TAX ABATEMENT both passed in the State Assembly during this last week of the Legislative Session. The ABATEMENT passed on Tuesday June 17, and NET METERING on June 19th.

This is a big victory for solar in New York State and City. Both policies, to brought into force over the next 6 months, will help make clean energy investments more economical in the short-term, and ultimately cost-competitive with conventional sources in the next 5-10 years.

For all of you who called and wrote letters to your legislators over the past two months, thank you and congratulations! Your efforts and hard work paid off.

The victories are not the end of our work, but the beginning. With these two goals now fulfilled, the I Heart PV campaign, in partnership with a coalition of other advocacy groups and individuals throughout New York, will begin to lay the groundwork for bolder statewide solar goals, including a ‘million solar roof’ program for New York, modeled on California’s existing initiative. Stay tuned for further details . . . .

I Heart PV would like to thank the many groups that led the effort to achieve expanded net metering and the NYCSPTA. I was a pleasure working with and learning from them:

ACE New York, the Campaign for New York’s Future, Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Environmental Defense, New York League of Conservation Voters, NYSEIA, NYIRN, Sierra Club, the Solar Alliance, Vote Solar (big shout out to Shaun Chapman), and many more.


Posted on Friday, June 20th, 2008 at 9:51 am | Tagged in Solar One | posted by Neidl

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