\nThey’ve done it in North Carolina:\n
\n\n<\/a>\n91% of voters support using solar power to meet our growing needs for energy and electricity\n<\/blockquote>\nSolar is hands down the most popular energy source across NC,\nacross parties, ages, genders, etc.\nCoal and nuclear are the politically charged energy sources,\nand neither got a majority.\nNumber 2 was offshore wind with 83% and number 3 was onshore wind\nwith 82% support.\nHere’s the\n\nNCSEA press release.<\/a>\nHere’s\n\nthe survey.<\/a>\n
\nHow did they do this?\n\n\nHad to get a little demand.\nHad to have voluntary green power buyin.\n(Hm, like the one\n\nGeorgia Power has.<\/a>)\nThen tax credit.\n(Hm, Georgia already has that.)\nNet metering.\n(Georgia already has that.)\nInterconnection standard.\nImproving.\nBecoming aware of the systems.\nLearning together.\n
\nThrottle up or throttle back based on what we’re experiencing.\n<\/blockquote>\nPolicy makers didn’t understand it at first, because they only\nheard about places like Germany or New Jersey, but now:\n\nThey’ve started talking about it because there are systems in their back yards.\n<\/blockquote>\nNC legislature passed a law requiring power companies to report data,\nwhich NCSEA has compiled into NC clean energy book\nthat compares wind, solar, biomass, etc.\nIt’s \navailable online.<\/a>\n\n56% of the solar jobs are in R&D in NC.\n
\nWe took this narrow initial step of just getting it on rooftops,\nand learning from that.\n<\/blockquote>\nRamped up to studying the entire whole solar ecosystem.\nBrought in delegations from Germany and Korea.\nThe citizens also are becoming more aware of it.\nAnd the people want solar power.\n\nHis presentation also included many fascinating maps and charts\nshowing where the power companies are and how quickly\nsolar prices will drop below current utility power source prices:\nbetween 2014 and 2018.\nUnless they build nuclear, which will run up traditional power prices\nand move the solar grid parity dates sooner.\n
\nDuring the Q&A session, he said the key was:\n
\nConstituency building.\nGetting more visibility to what’s already present.\nSo people couldn’t claim that if you add more energy the grid’s going to crash.\n<\/blockquote>\nConstituency building.\n\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Like the previous speaker, Ivan Urlaub of the North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association (NCSEA) pointed out there are downsides to too many incentives, such as too much dependence on them which means if they end, so can the industry. So how to generate demand? They’ve done it in North Carolina: 91% of voters support using […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,14,15,21,22,23,24,4250],"tags":[2861,4281,8753,4284,2483,8704,4045,4282,847,3320,158,4279,8737,4280,8714,60,4283,4085,8716],"class_list":["post-1855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-economy","category-education","category-planning","category-politics","category-renewable-energy","category-solar","category-southeast-solar-summit-24-june-2011","tag-net-metering","tag-buyin","tag-coal","tag-constituency","tag-demand","tag-economy","tag-green-power","tag-grid-parity","tag-jobs","tag-ncsea","tag-north-carolina","tag-north-carolina-sustainable-energy-association","tag-nuclear","tag-popular","tag-solar","tag-tax","tag-visibility","tag-voters","tag-wind"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-tV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}