Row of solar panels on a solar farm

CEA’s James Voyles discusses recent polling in Maine demonstrating support for renewable energy and lower energy costs.

About 68 percent of voters said that lowering the cost of energy – solar or not – was a top priority. When told that rooftop panels cost more than twice as much as large solar power facilities to produce electricity – remember, small solar power generators do not bear the same fixed costs to maintain and power the grid as non-solar power generators do – 58 percent said large solar power facilities would be the best way to increase solar.

Read more – Portland Press Herald