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Solar Advocates Have Their Eyes On Low Income Communities

Tuesday, Mar 22 2016

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Solar power has been criticized for helping the wealthy and punishing the poor. Some groups — largely, it should be noted, utilities and advocacy groups funded by fossil fuel interests — say only affluent people can afford solar, leaving less-affluent people to pay more than their share for the grid. But it turns out that in the battle to transition to a cleaner, more networked grid, low-income communities are the next big front.