Toni Schneider 
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£400 plug-in solar panels to be sold by Lidl and Amazon to cut your energy bills
A UK household could save £70 to £110 a year from using the technology
Balcony & DIY solar in the US — plug-in solar panels, home solar savings, Bill McKibben & Third Act, solar for renters & apartment dwellers.
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I just signed a bill to rename Minnesota’s community solar program after Speaker Melissa Hortman.
Melissa was a true champion of solar and I was proud to sign this in honor of my dear friend.
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My goal is to have solar panels on my house, and be able to charge an EV with them too. I work from home so my car will be with me all day to get whatever it needs from the sun.
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I’ve been an advocate of rooftop solar and EV’s for over 10 years. My own solar system has paid for itself and my EV charges for free.
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How are states doing on removing bureaucratic obstacles to rooftop solar power? Environment America has a new scorecard & y'all ... it's pretty dismal. No state gets an A. Only two states -- CA & TX -- get a B.
State lawmakers really need to get on this.
environmentamerica.org
Solar permitting scorecard
A majority of states have done little to adopt common-sense practices that reduce the costs and delays that permitting and inspection requirements impose on families wishing to install solar panels an...
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The combination of plug-in solar and battery storage (and relatedly, cheap e-bikes and mopeds) is going to be unbelievably revolutionary in the Global South.
mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social
one of the biggest technological revolutions in history and it has nothing to do with crypto, AI, metaverse or any of the things the media relentlessly hypes
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Puerto Rico generates more of its electricity from rooftop solar than from gas:
www.utilitydive.com/news/….
www.utilitydive.com
Rooftop solar reaches 20% of Puerto Rico’s generation mix
Rooftop solar capacity in Puerto Rico reached around 1.5 GW in 2025, passing natural gas and becoming the territory’s second-largest generation source, according to the Energy Information Administration.
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My balcony solar is pulling in 101 watts (I saw it peak at 109 watts)
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I think we should require solar panels AND/OR rooftop gardens.
Koreen Brennan@koreen.bsky.social
France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?
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SOLAR POWER POST
We got rooftop solar installed last Thursday, and I've already managed to change powercos from Mercury (yawn) to PowerEdge.
Tiny wee company, very un-corporate, actual humans signing emails (hi Toni, hi Roy!). And the highest buy-back rate on the market - 20c.
Let's see how it goes.
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We need to be looking at what other countries are doing, like this, and speedily nicking their best ideas.
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
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Brad Lander voted in favor of the resolution to shut down Indian Point.
Now?
“I think we have realized that if we are going to transition away from fossil fuels fast enough to prevent catastrophic climate damage, that safe nuclear energy has a role to play.”
open.substack.com/pub/nye….
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Low-income households who own their own home... I wonder which demographic that will target?
To be fair, it will probably boost support for Net Zero among retirees, so there's a logic there.
Hopefully there will be support for renters to get their own plug-in solar set-ups when ready soon...
inews.co.uk
£12,000 solar panel grants to be fast-tracked for households
Ministers are speeding up the roll-out of solar grants and loans to shield households from rising energy costs
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@ariadneshaffer.bsky.social
15 days agoYay! NY is considering OKing balcony solar. Hopefully this takes off across the country. Homemade electricity is always better!
gothamist.com/news/here-co...
gothamist.com
Here comes the sun: New bill would let New Yorkers hang solar panels from windows
The Sunny Act could remove barriers and allow all New Yorkers to hang their own solar panels.
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“With the LNG drought pushing up electricity prices… a boom in rooftop solar is far more likely than a return to coal. Don’t look under the ground for the solution to the LNG crisis. The answer is in the skies.”
Great piece by @justinmikulka.bsky.social
powering-the-planet.ghost.io/the-simple-m...
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Con Edison is supporting NY legislation that would make it easier to install and use plug-in solar. Elsewhere in the country, utilities have opposed these bills (link to my @npr.org story on that in comment).
Gothamist@gothamist.com
The Sunny Act would allow apartment dwellers, whether renters or homeowners, to use easy-to-install and affordable solar panels: gothamist.visitlink.me/cF0lVc
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“…they’ll stay connected to the regular grid, but will be outfitted with solar panels, battery backup systems, or other infrastructure, drawing on that power for their home use and opening up the prospect of selling any excess. The city…would pay for the installation & maintenance of these systems”
bridgemi.com
In US first, Ann Arbor makes its own green power company - Bridge Michigan
With utilities’ transition to green energy moving too slowly for them, Ann Arbor officials decided to launch a power company of their own.
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The best life hack for home-owners at the moment is installing rooftop solar and a battery, and switching to an EV.
Put it on the mortgage and the extra payments will likely be less than what you save.
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⚡🌱 Community energy is what the transition looks like when it starts at home.
From rooftop solar ☀️ to shared local projects powering neighbourhoods 🏘️, community energy puts people, not just utilities, at the centre of the system.
The energy transition isn’t just national, it’s local.
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Sure is nice driving an electric car and riding an electic bike with rooftop and community solar. What oil crisis?
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It's crazy how fast this map is expanding! Call it plug-in solar, balcony solar, DIY solar—it all adds up to more opportunities for renters and households that can't make rooftop solar work to cut their electric bills with a simple plug-and-play:
www.canarymedia.com/artic….
#energysky
www.canarymedia.com
Where does balcony solar stand in your state?
Dozens of states are considering legislation to allow residents to use DIY plug-in solar. Follow the efforts here.
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This must be an accident: Rooftop solar is straight up booming in Florida after a GOP bill removed hurdles to installations, per BNEF. The state's on track to install 700 mw of panels, about 2x last year.
Trump's self-made energy emergency means he'll be surrounded by solar panels
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"The U.S. community solar sector reached a major milestone in late 2025, officially surpassing 10 GW of cumulative installations. The milestone comes despite a tightening market that saw a 25% contraction in annual installations last year."
pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/04/15/u...
pv-magazine-usa.com
U.S. community solar passes 10 GW milestone despite market contraction
The industry installed 1.4 GW in 2025, a drop from 2024 levels as leading markets like New York and Maine slowed.
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Is your state working to legalize plug-in balcony solar? Here’s a status update.
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