On Tuesday, June 20 at 10:30am Jeff Bissonnette testified on behalf of OSEIAstating the importance of adopting Appendix U to provide clear standards, provide consistency with practices already promulgated by the Energy Trust of Oregon. See
Read MoreAs we move into mid-June, lots is going on in Salem at both the Capitol and the Public Utility Commission (PUC).
Read MoreWith about 24 hours to prepare, both solar and energy efficiency advocates responded in a big way for the RETC hearing on Friday, June 2. Nearly 50 support letters were e-mailed to the committee
Read MoreOver thirty years ago, as a communist child from the Vietnamese city of Saigon (capital city of South VietNam) fell to North Vietnamese forces on April 30th, 1975. The fall of Saigon
Read MoreLegislature: With a little more than a month to go in Oregon’s 2017 legislative session, it’s budget writing time in Oregon’s State Capitol. The legislature’s first job, above all others, is to pass a balanced state budget for the next two years.
Read MoreRenewing the Residential Energy Tax Credit (RETC) is OSEIA’s top legislative priority this session. Since the prospects for winning on RETC are very much entwined with the question of
Read MorePlease help us! Just follow these steps:
Enter your address on this form to ID your State Representative (look under the “House” tab).
Call their phone number and urge them to a) cosponsor HB 2681, the bill to extend RETC, and b) tell the Oregon House Speaker that they support extending RETC.
If you do this, please let us know by emailing max@oseia.org.
SEIA, the national solar trade association, is organizing a lobby day for solar companies based in and working in the western United States
Read MoreCommunity solar offers exciting possibilities to help consumers who can’t put solar on their roof still access the benefits of solar by participating in a larger project and getting a portion of the energy from that project credited to their bill.
Read MoreThis article is part of an ongoing series of interviews for my exclusive column on Thriving Culture. The intention of this series is to give you, as a reader, a sense of where and how culture is thriving in the solar
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