Public pressure prompts reversal of unfriendly solar
policies.
A year and a half after Nevada virtually shut down its
thriving rooftop solar industry, Gov. Brian Sandoval signed a bill last week designed to bring it back. It was among
eight clean and high-tech energy bills recently considered by the state
legislature. Sandoval also signed laws crafted to install charging stations for
electric vehicles and incentivize energy efficiency.
But Sandoval also vetoed a widely supported bill that would
have increased the state’s requirement for renewable energy in its electricity
supply from 25 percent by 2025 to 40 percent by 2030. And he rejected a bill
designed to establish community solar projects, where renters and low-income
Nevadans could participate in generating solar power.
