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State-by-State Basis: The Solar Alliance Formed
A smattering of solar panel manufacturers and installers today announced the formation of The Solar Alliance. Heading up the group is former US Representative Claudine Schneider from Rhode Island.
If the appointment of a former congresswoman as president isn't already a clue, here's the deal. The group's goal is to influence policy on the state level.
The leading U.S. solar electricity module manufacturers and systems integrators announced today that they had joined forces to form The Solar Alliance and appointed the Hon. Claudine Schneider, former five-term U.S. Congresswoman from Rhode Island, as the group's first president. The Solar Alliance will focus its efforts on supporting state lawmakers, regulators and utilities in their efforts to establish more effective solar policies and programs throughout the United States.
Members include BP Solar, First Solar, Mitsubishi Electric, Sanyo Energy, and SunPower.
The Solar Alliance will be concentrating their efforts in California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, Arizona, Texas, Colorado, North Carolina, Florida, Massachusetts and Ohio to start. Plus, they're buddies with the Solar Energy Industries Association, which is taking up the cause on the national level.
Sun shiny days ahead? Quite possibly...
Update: Solar Alliance president Claudine Schneider answers five questions at Earth2Tech.
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