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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 …
Taxing Residential Solar, Gregg Polsky, Ethan Yale
Taxing Residential Solar, Gregg Polsky, Ethan Yale
Scholarly Works
Residential solar systems are becoming commonplace in many regions of the United States. Use of such systems raises issues in tax doctrine and policy that are not well appreciated and have not yet been systematically analyzed. The goals of this article are threefold: (1) to identify the main issues and to organize them into a coherent framework, (2) to analyze the doctrinal and policy ramifications of present law, and (3) to suggest improvements to present law.