Hundreds of solar employees and lawyers arrived at the Save Main Street Solar Rally on Capitol Hill today to encourage congress to protect tax credits that support hundreds of thousands of American jobs.
The Bill Text that was released last night by the US Senate Finance Committee would become the American solar and storage industry, in particular thousands of small companies in the sun sector on the roof, because it would eliminate the home credit for solar energy at the end of the year.
Many of those companies and market leaders joined the rally today to tell the congress that their companies, jobs and freedom of energy for American families are all in risk in this bill.
“West Virginia has always been known for our coal, but in the last 12 years something has happened. Solar has appeared in unexpected places in churches, in schools, at steel factories,” said Conant, CEO and founder of Solar Holler in West Virginia. “We did it in neighborhoods and shouts on both sides of the tracks. We build them with solar panels from Georgia, with inverters from South Carolina, with the stretching of our neighbors across the river in Ohio. It is certainly not in the interest of America.
Speakers at the rally included solar employees, business owners and proponents of clean energy from all over the country. They all shared a common message: removing tax credits for clean energy will cost jobs, immediately increase energy bills and threaten the independence of American energy.
“The bill will rid the ability of millions of American families to choose energy saving, energy saving and energy freedom that offer solar energy and storage,” said Abigail Ross Hopper, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association. “You are the men and women who are building American energy – independence – in states who have voted mainly for President Trump and have long been the backbone of the energy economy of our country. The Senate must determine the bill that has come from the Senate financing in a way that is the critical role of solar and storage of our end -of -the -day. Recognize an affordable, reliable energy system.
The rally was organized to bring the serious consequences of the proposed recovery of energy tax credits to the entire solar industry.
News item from SEIA
