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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]I work in the industry. These are all gimmicks. Honestly, the idea of clean energy in DC only makes people feel good. It has no big effect on anything, but it gives you a talking point.

I find the idea of switch from gas to electricity to be ludicrous. How do you think electricity is made? We don't have enough land for utility scale renewable energy that would have a real impact. [/quote]

What part of the industry to you work in, the coal or petroleum part? Electricity can be produced from renewable sources. While covering all of DC's needs may not be immediately possible, solar can make a significant impact. Solar is covering over 90% of my home's needs, including charging an electric car. If this experience were repeated all over the city, it would have a very important and noticeable difference.

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I work in renewables. I think DC is completely unrealistic. Even if they provide help to lower income people, solar is really expensive to install and so are electric vehicles. I have one myself. I paid a lot of money for it. Also, who can afford the upfront costs of putting in a charger? Most people don't have garages and DC's infrastructure sucks. I truly believe DC needs to slow down. I wouldn't get a subsidy for solar panels and can't afford them without it. There are thousands of people like me.

How much were your solar panels?[/quote]

Why wouldn't you get a subsidy for solar panels? You're eligible for a large federal tax credit, regardless of D.C.'s policies. A lot of other states have straight state subsidies of solar panels; D.C. instead pushes the value of the SRECs up (but has no direct local tax credit for solar).

D.C. also doesn't have a local credit for EV purchases, which some states do (but you don't have to pay sales tax for electric vehicles here). Policies on all this stuff varies by location. [/quote]

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