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Disunity Among The United States: Navigating Net-Metering Without Getting Electrocuted, Aundene Szmolyan
Disunity Among The United States: Navigating Net-Metering Without Getting Electrocuted, Aundene Szmolyan
The Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship & the Law
As it stands, the progress towards fighting climate change at the national level is in disarray, and there is a complete disunity of direction and goals at the state level. This paper highlights the disunity by providing a case study of the different regulations, which affect the solar power industry across all fifty states, with a particular focus paid to net metering regulations. Through an examination of this industry, three startling conclusions will emerge. First, investor-owned utilities apply intense political pressure through lobbying efforts to maintain the current status quo of the utility industry’s economic model, which results in the …