Science How Rooftop Solar Benefits Your Neighbors – Treehugger

Ever since rooftop solar became cheap enough to start proliferating, there has been debate about fairness and equity. Specifically, some have argued that policies like net metering where utility companies are required to pay for excess electricity that homeowners produce are simply foisting costs on the rest of society.
But now, new research led by Joshua Pearce, a professor of materials science and engineering at Michigan Technological University, has not only discredited this assertion, but hes…

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