{"id":82,"date":"2015-10-27T13:05:02","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T17:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/solarenergylocal.com\/news\/?p=82"},"modified":"2015-10-28T13:24:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T17:24:36","slug":"seven-more-companies-reportedly-spearheading-anti-solar-campaigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/seven-more-companies-reportedly-spearheading-anti-solar-campaigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven more companies reportedly spearheading anti-solar campaigns"},"content":{"rendered":"

In part two of a two-part series, here’s a quick look at seven more companies that are “undermining American solar power,” according to environmental advocacy organization Environment America. <\/p>\n

In part one, we took a look at the national level.<\/p>\n

\"Five<\/a>

Five companies said to be running campaigns against solar power<\/h4><\/a>Read more<\/a><\/div>\n

Here, we’ll take a look at what Environment America said about state-level organizations:<\/p>\n

At the state level, electric utilities have used the support provided by national anti-solar interests, as well as their own ample resources, to attack key solar energy policies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Arizona Public Service<\/h3>\n

Arizona Public Service is the largest utility in Arizona and has found ways to fund anti-net metering advertisements.<\/p>\n

Duke Energy<\/h3>\n

Duke Energy is the biggest utility in the entire country has made contributions to anti-solar politicians in office in Florida and has also helped fund anti-solar campaigns in North Carolina.<\/p>\n

American Electric Power (AEP)<\/h3>\n

American Electric Power (AEP) has actively supported anti-solar activity in both West Virginia and Ohio.<\/p>\n

Berkshire Hathaway Energy<\/h3>\n

Berkshire Hathaway Energy has been involved in numerous campaigns in Utah and Nevada that could effectively halt the growth of solar power.<\/p>\n

Salt River Project<\/h3>\n

The Salt River Project is a public utility in Arizona that has worked to introduce a demand charge for solar customers that will increase utility bills.<\/p>\n

FirstEnergy<\/h3>\n

FirstEnergy has actively fought against renewable energy and net metering in the state of Ohio.<\/p>\n

We Energies<\/h3>\n

We Energies is the largest utility in Wisconsin and has been involved in proposals limiting net metering and also introducing surcharges to solar owners.<\/p>\n

* All claims here are according to Environment America [Read the report here<\/a>].<\/p>\nSource → Environment America<\/a><\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A quick look at seven more companies that are “undermining American solar power,” according to environmental advocacy organization Environment America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20,19,21,6],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar","tag-environment-america","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-politics","tag-solar-power"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}