Putting Green in the Tea Party, She Crusades for Clean Power
“Debbie is being a little bit of a trailblazer on the climate issue,
but she was always a trailblazer on clean energy,” said Stephen Smith, executive director of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, an environmental advocacy group based in Knoxville, Tenn.
Ms. Dooley sees the Trump administration’s tariffs on solar-panel imports as the latest in a series of impediments to clean energy.
Proponents of residential solar power like Ms. Dooley accuse utility companies
and the energy industry at large of waging war on efforts to free consumers from their power companies, even if only for a slightly lower electric bill.
Cumulative installed solar photovoltaic capacity by state
STATE WON BY TRUMP IN 2016
Through third quarter of 2017, in gigawatts
RESIDENTIAL SOLAR CAPACITY
UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR CAPACITY
Cumulative installed solar photovoltaic
Florida Power & Light and Duke Energy spent a combined $14.8 million on the referendum campaign.
The monopoly control of utilities over energy supplies stands in contrast to the
free market, she said, while solar and wind power represent energy freedom.