DEEP taking heat on its proposed changes to solar policy
(WorldNews Environment)

Workers installing solar panels at Bishop’s Orchards in Guilford. When James Schwartz took a look at the solar energy provisions in the new Comprehensive Energy Strategy (CES) draft released in July by the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, he was pretty sure what it would mean for his 10-employee company, Independence Solar. `We´d be out of business,` said Schwartz, who relocated Independence from Boston to Essex, Conn., because of the groundbreaking commercial solar program launched here in 2011. `There´s no business to be had based on the levels in there.` He was talking about recommendations in the CES that the kind of solar power known as distributed generation -...