Renewable energy incentives lure California solar firm to Connecticut

California-based solar energy services company is the first to take advantage of Connecticut's  efforts to encourage the development and use of renewable energy sources.

SolarCity, based in San Mateo, Calif., will announce today in a press release that it is expanding into Connecticut to provide a less-expensive way for residential and business customers to install and benefit from solar power.

New Illinois energy bill includes some solar incentives

When the Illinois legislature voted earlier this week to override Governor Pat Quinn’s veto of Senate Bill 1652, it paved the way for greater solar energy development in the state.

The bill, titled the Energy Infrastructure Improvement Act, introduces tougher utility performance standards and provides payment assistance for low-income families. But the trailer bill introduced last week includes provisions and new policies that will encourage further renewable energy and especially solar energy development in Illinois.

NJ: Bill could deliver what solar sector needs most - stability

The legislature appears poised to act to stabilize a solar market that some have argued threatens to curtail the rapid growth of solar systems in New Jersey. But the initiative will have to wait until the lame-duck session after the election next month.

Assemblyman Upendra Chivukula (D-Middlesex), the influential chairman of the Assembly Telecommunications and Utilities Committee, said he expects to move a bill in mid-November that would deal with issues that have caused widespread uncertainty among investors as to whether solar energy is still a good bet in New Jersey.