How can we make energy more affordable and reliable? Distributed energy resources (DERs)! DERs, like rooftop solar, batteries, and smart thermostats that allow consumers to generate, store, and manage their own electricity. Read @pewtrusts.org new DER policy playbook: pew.org/research-and...

Introducing more residential solar projects onto our energy grid will lower energy bills across Maryland, offering much-needed relief from rising household costs. Read more: environmentamerica.org/maryland/med...

Thanks to the MD General Assembly for passing the Utility RELIEF Act to make it easier and less expensive to go solar! The new legislation will make installing rooftop solar and home batteries easier and less expensive, which can provide Marylanders with $2,300 in annual savings.

Earlier this week, legislation to allow plug-in solar unanimously passed its Senate committee. Coming on the heels of the bill's passage through the House, this brings plug-in solar one step closer to Colorado families. Onward! ☀️ ⚡ www.cohousedems.com/news/house-p...

Energy bills are squeezing families. Home solar could help, but red tape is standing in the way. 46/50 states scored a D or lower on our Solar Permitting Scorecard. Cutting red tape is one of the easiest, cheapest things states can do to deliver real bill savings. ⚡️☀️ See how your state stacks up 👇

🚨 Our CEO Nick Josefowitz joined @volts.wtf & Open Solar's Birchy to talk about how we make rooftop solar in the U.S. as cheap as Australia’s! ☀️ 👉 Listen here: www.volts.wtf/p/how-to-mak...

Our new report finds that Maryland households can save $2,300/year and $76,000 over the life of home solar, but red tape still keeps too many families locked out. Grateful to Del. Fraser-Hidalgo for leading on legislation that makes solar cheaper and easier for Maryland families.

Last month, our CEO, Nick, sat down with @elisawood.bsky.social to discuss why American families pay so much more for home solar, and how red tape is the real culprit. ☀️ Check it out below⬇️

Australia has so much rooftop solar that retailers are offering free daytime electricity to customers. Talk about affordability! Let’s make it that simple here in the U.S. by slashing red tape ☀️

@permitpower.bsky.social's new report, "As Cheap as Our Peers," shows how cutting red tape could make home solar and batteries affordable for millions of Americans. permitpower.org/resources/as...

Another story on this study by @permitpower.bsky.social in @heatmap.news 2/ heatmap.news/energy/solar...

Study by @permitpower.bsky.social analyzes how much cheaper solar installations are in countries such as Australia and Germany compared to the soft costs imposed by red-tape in US jurisdictions. 3/ permitpower.org/resources/as...

⚡ Another powerhouse session at #SolarFocus2025! Reducing Costs Without Compromise: Navigating Today’s Solar & Storage Economics Leaders from New Columbia Solar, @permitpower.bsky.social, Dewberry, enSights, SHINE & MCEC share real-world cost-saving strategies. 📅 Nov 18–19 | Arlington VA

We’re hiring! ☀️ Join Permit Power and help make solar cheaper and faster to install across the U.S. Open roles: ☀️ Campaign Director ⚡️ Permitting Policy Director 🔌 Interconnection Policy Director Apply by Nov 30 Links in the replies below ⬇️ #Solar #EnergyPolicy

“One possibility is that America will simply sit out the global solar boom in the same way Cubans, thanks to endless embargoes, still drive ’57 Chevys…having self-embargoed from the clean energy future, America will someday be a living museum of coal-fired power plants and basement furnaces”

Americans could save $1.2 trillion — yes, that's with a 't' — over 25 years by simplifying solar regulations. That's according to a new report by @permitpower.bsky.social, shared exclusively with @alexckaufman.bsky.social for Heatmap. Read more about the results: heatmap.news/energy/solar...

🚨NEW REPORT from @permitpower.bsky.social: If US home solar were as cheap as abroad by 2040: ☀️18.2M more families go solar 💰$1,600 avg yearly savings ⚡️198.1 GW more installed residential rooftop solar capacity heatmap.news/energy/solar...

Maryland is keeping instant solar permitting momentum alive. The state just renewed its incentive program to cover local gov transition costs. A win for Maryland families, faster installs, lower costs, and more clean energy. 🌞⚡ #SolarAPP #CleanEnergy #InstantPermitting

🚨 Big win for rooftop solar in Colorado: @colorado.gov just made instant permitting + fast, flexible interconnection a statewide priority. That means more Coloradans powering up clean energy without the red tape. Other states: time to follow suit. ⚡ colorado.gov/governor/new...

🚨 New @motherjones.com underscores a brutal truth about rooftop solar in America. Let’s cut the red tape and make solar affordable for all. Thanks, @billmckibben.bsky.social! Read the full article: motherjones.com/environment/... #SolarPower #CleanEnergy #PermittingReform #PermitPower

Exciting news in TX this weekend – SB 1202 is now TX law! This bill saves time and lowers costs for families to install life-saving back up power systems. Better permitting = better power! ⚡ Read more: pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/05/28/t...

NJ lawmakers can make rooftop solar faster, cheaper & easier for everyone by fixing the permitting process: 💡 Read more in yesterday's op-ed by Doug O’Malley & Robert Freudenberg in Binje News: @rpa.org ‬ binje.com/op-ed-cuttin... #SolarForNJ #PermitPower #CleanEnergy #NJSenate

☀️Right now, rooftop #solar costs families thousands because of permitting red tape. “Automating solar permitting is one of those rare win-wins — saving families and solar installers money and headaches, and saving cities and counties resources and time.” ✅ Yoni Cohen & Ian Skor

Big win in NJ! Our bill to make solar cheaper & easier for NJ families unanimously passed the Assembly Appropriations Committee yesterday! ☀️ Thank you Chair Lisa Swain, Asm. @RobKarabinchak & all YES votes! Next stop: the Assembly floor! #gosolar

🎉Local governments in 15 states have implemented instant permitting! Mounds View, Minnesota joins local governments from all over the US in implementing better permitting for rooftop solar and home batteries.

🗣Check out this Capitol Fax quotable from @IllinoisPIRG new report: “#solar installers often face “complex and cumbersome” permitting requirements that can add months and hundreds of dollars…to the simplest residential roof project” Read more: capitolfax.com/2025/04/21/t...

☀️⚡ New from RPA, with support from @permitpower.bsky.social NY and NJ are leaders in clean energy, but there are still roadblocks for solar energy. RPA's Kyle Mason analyzed challenges and solutions for solar permitting in the region:

🥳 Thrilled that Matt Kirby is our new Campaign Director. Matt comes from the conservation movement, where he led campaigns to secure protections for millions of acres of public lands at top orgs. Matt will oversee our legislative work in the Western US & our policy implementation campaigns. 🎉

⚡🔋 We're hiring a Research Director to do the policy research that will help us set an agenda & deliver advocacy wins to make it cheaper and easier for Americans to power their lives with clean electricity. View job details, salary range & what skills we're looking for: airtable.com/appybDMjc3EV...