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Sorry about the typo. I am the one who composed it. Correction is "burden". We also fixed the caps thing that you did not like. Next time she will proof the email better before it goes out. Thanks for pointing that one out. I hope that a typo in a campaign donation email is not the biggest worry that people have.
Posted By: Louis, Campaign Fund Raising Staffer for Gloria Bonaventura
New revision:
I am asking you to consider supporting my campaign financially. We need help with the financial burden that my campaign has accumulated. Any amount will help. $5.00, $25.00 or anything helps. Thanks!
Why is Nevada so far behind in SOLAR energy if Titus was in the Senate for so long?
There is a little known law in Nevada that stops solar from being part of the solution to the energy crises.
This little known law is called "Net Metering" and it alone is keeping Nevada from becoming a world leader in solar energy.
What Net Metering means to Nevadans, is that you are charged for the "net" amount of electricity that you bought from the power company. Minus what you sold them back from your solar or wind generator.
Nevada Net Metering Law
The law provides for net metering for customer-generators using wind or solar energy systems of less than 100kW. Utilities are required to offer net metering to only 1 percent of customer-generators in their service territories. Thus, discouraging solar energy.
This unnecessary and harmful restriction limits us to only 1 percent of homes, along with other restrictions that were placed in the Nevada law.
In other states and countries where Net Metering is available, anyone who puts up a solar panel can sell excess solar energy back to the power company. There are private companies now available to Nevada residents, who are willing to pay for the solar panels, and to install them for you at no out-of-pocket expense, but this is illegal under our current laws.
The law needs to be amended. With a true net metering law in Nevada, solar power will spread rapidly and people will be able to sell energy back to the community, which would dramatically lower the need for fossil fuels.
Under the current laws of Nevada, Net Metering is available only if the system is owned by the home owner. Any "lease/purchase" or sale model is considered breaking the law. This prevents solar energy from spreading in Nevada.
We need to eliminate the statewide cap on systems eligible for net metering. In Nevada, the power company is only required to offer net metering to 1 percent of its customers.
We should fight for all classes of customers to be eligible to receive net metering and that there be no limit on customer-generators. Where this law is correctly implemented, solar power spreads rapidly.
We are falling way behind in meeting our state goal of procuring 20% of our energy from renewable sources by 2015. We need to step up to the plate and increase our solar and wind energy immediately. We need to amend our "Net Metering" law. We need to increase the limit for customer-generators to be greater than 100kW.
We need to fix this problem and enable Nevada to have more Solar energy.
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