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New federal funds for LIPA solar rebate program

Gary Minnick, owner of Go Solar Incorporated in

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)

The Department of Energy Tuesday approved a request for the Long Island Power Authority to use $8.3 million in federal stimulus funds to restart a popular consumer solar-panel rebate program, state officials said.

The program will start accepting applications Dec. 1, officials said.

The program, which subsidizes around a third of the cost of systems typically priced up to $60,000, had...

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