State aims to restart LIPA home solar-energy rebates
Photo credit: Joseph D. Sullivan | Gary Minnick, owner of Go Solar Incorporated in Aquebogue, examines a solar panel. The state is seeking to restart the LIPA home solar energy rebates. (Oct. 25, 2010)
New York State is advancing a plan to salvage the Long Island Power Authority's home solar-energy program by shifting $8 million in already-committed federal stimulus funds to restart LIPA's popular solar rebates.
The move was welcomed by solar-panel installers whose orders for new business dried up overnight when LIPA suspended the program Oct. 1 when rebate funds ran out.
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