Why Not Ohio? Maryland aims for 100,000 solar rooftops in 10 years

[Towntalk]

Dennis, lets for a moment assume that all your assumptions are 100% true, and that each and every one of the ideas that you propose are asolutely necessary for the survival of the state, where would we get the billions of dollars, no, trillions of dollars to impliment them?

We've gone over this time and time again, yet the fact that we (the state) is as deeply in the red as the federal government, doesn't seem to sink in.

We've also directed you to the state agencies that are involved with all your concerns so that you could see what Ohio is doing.

Why don't you just come right out and state that you are running for Governor on the Green Party ticket and address all the issues facing Ohio. State you total platform.

http://www.votespisak.org/governor/

I'll do it for you and wish you good fortune.

http://www.votespisak.org/governor/id1.html

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[irishbobcat]

Why Not Ohio? Maryland aims for 100,000 solar rooftops in 10 years

The Baltimore Sun newspaer reported the following earlier this month:

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Environment Maryland says a quarter of Maryland homes are ready for solar panels that could capture energy that is now going unused. The group cites information from the International Center for Sustainable Development that shows the state gets about 196,000 gigawatt-hours of solar energy on a sunny summer day. That's more than what's produced at the state's mostly coal-fired power plants here in a year.

The move could reduce greenhouse gases and air pollution, as well as make energy distribution more efficient by creating it locally. It could also save consumers money and create local jobs, the group said.

Environment Maryland describes the three bills this way:

First, Gov. O'Malley has introduced legislation that would require a quicker ramp-up of the solar portion of the state's renewable portfolio standard. This would mean that utilities would have to get a greater percentage of their energy portfolio from solar power sooner, which would jumpstart job creation and cut down on our emission of greenhouse gases.

Second, Del. Hecht and Sen. Middleton are leading an effort to introduce legislation that would give municipalities the means by which to loan people money for solar and other clean energy projects at very low interest rates, resulting in more homeowners taking advantage of the clean, reliable electricity that solar energy generation provides.

Finally, Dels. Pinsky and Hecht are working on "net-metering" legislation, which would require utilities to pay customers back for surplus energy they create with the solar panels on their roofs.

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Why not Ohio? Why does not Ted Strickland call for feed-in tariffs that would pay customers back for surplus solar energy created by solar panels? Is it because Ted Strickland is on the dirty coal and nuke power gravy train because of all the political campaign contributions from these corporate lobbyists over the years. With each passing day the answer becomes an obvious YES!