\n\n<\/a>\nIt wasn’t until I entered the training room of Mage Solar in Dublin\nand saw 40 subcontractors in their solar academy that I got it. The\ngrowing solar industry is not just about funky collectors on a roof or\nleft-leaning environmentalists who hate fossil fuel. It is about skilled\njobs in manufacturing and construction, about economic development in\nGeorgia, about consumers saving money on their power bill so they can\nspend it somewhere else, and about empowering people to essentially\ncreate their own power plant. This could eventually be big.\n<\/blockquote>\nThat’s three out of\n\nfive commissioners.<\/a>\nI’d call that a majority shaping up to do something in the\n\nPSC Energy Committee meeting of 16 July 2011.<\/a>\nI couldn’t say what, exactly, since there nothing\n\non the energy committee’s agenda<\/a>\nabout this.\nBut something solar seems to be in the works.\n
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