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In addition to Musk’s personal contributions, SpaceX’s political action committee has donated extensively to members of both parties this cycle. On the Republican side are some of Congress’ most prominent deniers of climate science, including Sens. Jim Inhofe (Okla.) and Ted Cruz (Texas), who received $2,500 and $3,500, respectively. The campaign committee of Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), the outgoing chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology who has argued that pumping the atmosphere full of carbon dioxide is “beneficial” to global trade, crop production and the lushness of the planet, received $1,000. … [Read more...] about Elon Musk Has Donated Nearly 7 Times As Much To Republicans This Cycle

Buss served as chief financial officer of solar panel installer SolarCity for two years before retiring in 2016. Tesla bought SolarCity that year. Denholm, the first woman to join Tesla’s board, is chief operations officer of telecom firm Telstra and the ex-CFO of network gear maker Juniper Networks ( JNPR.N ). Rice, the first African-American and second woman to join the company’s board, is the chairman of Johnson Publishing Co, home to Ebony and Jet magazines. … [Read more...] about Tesla Forms Three-Member Panel To Look At Any Musk Deal

In a letter to shareholders after his tweet on Tuesday, Musk fleshed out his idea, suggesting they would get the option to sell their shares for $420 each or remain investors in a private Tesla, out of the glare of Wall Street and its need for quarterly results. … [Read more...] about Tesla board evaluating CEO Musk’s idea to take company private

During 2015, utilities began to reach their net metering caps, significantly slowing solar installations in parts of Massachusetts, stalling several large projects, and putting the industry into a holding pattern.  National Grid and Unitil have hit their caps in several parts of the state, and Eversource has indicated that it will soon reach its cap as well.  In November, 2015, the Massachusetts House passed a compromise bill that would have raised the net metering caps by 2% (to about 1,400-1,500 megawatts in total), while lowering net metering payments to the wholesale rate and required a re-evaluation of solar incentives contained in the state’s renewable energy portfolio standard (RPS).  But the Senate didn’t pass the bill before going home for its winter recess, leaving the net metering program in limbo.  The Massachusetts House plans to pass the comprehensive energy bill in 2016, but may handle solar separately and has indicated that it may try to … [Read more...] about Net Metering Uncertainty Threatens to Disrupt Explosive Growth of Solar Power

In California, the nation's leading solar market, there were twelve Tesla roof systems connected to the grid as of May 31, all in Northern California, according to records from the state’s three investor-owned utilities. The cost per watt for those systems was listed at nearly $6, according to the records. That's about double the national average for solar systems. … [Read more...] about Inside Tesla’s troubled New York solar factory