Solar Push in Texas Fails

Solar Push in Texas Fails
By KATE GALBRAITH
Texas’s efforts to create incentives for solar power production are dead, dashing the industry’s hopes that the huge, sunny state would see a surge in demand for panels.

Last-minute maneuvering this weekend at the end of the state legislative session prevented the passage of $500m of solar rebates. Efforts to change Texas’s renewable portfolio standard to create extra requirements for solar, biomass and geothermal power had failed earlier.

Solar had previously appeared to be on a roll, and so many bills flooded the state legislature this session that it was sometimes called the “solar session.”

“Is that how hope dies? With a whimper and a bang of a gavel?” wrote one disappointed environmentalist on Twitter.

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http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/solar-push-in-texas-fails/

solar and wind power. We're aiming in this direction regardless of rebates; to be free of 'commercial' energy is all the incentive we need. imho

Who knew?