The Minnesota Solar Experiment — Solar in Minnesota? Part I

Renewable Energy World: My curiosity was piqued last summer when I received an email from a Minnesota friend, who had a community solar question.  “A solar company is trying to sell my mom part of a ‘solar garden.’ Is it a scam?”  A week later, a different friend asked the same question and I started to wonder what was going on.  When Minnesota grandmothers start to ask about solar, I knew something was up.  I packed my bags and headed to the Twin Cities to find out how the solar landscape was changing in the Midwest, interviewing nine experts across the utility, solar, environmental, and government landscape in the process.

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