By Ryan Randazzo | The Arizona Republic
The solar industry has come out with some strange ways to make political points in the past week.
The solar industry is afraid that Arizona Public Service Co. will ask state utility regulators to change the policy that gives solar customers credit for the power their solar panels send to the electric grid.
One ear-piercing strategy to protest the change is a video posted on Youtube.com recently, sung to the tune of “Total Eclipse of the Heart” that Bonnie Tyler turned into a 1980s hit. The video passed around the solar crowd’s social media the past week.
Lyric sampling: “Once upon a time they liked the light from above. With solar now they want to depart. There’s nothing we can do. They totally think we’re not smart.”
The video was posted by a person using the name “TheSolarStyle.”
The five members of the Arizona Corporation Commission will decide what to do with the APS solar program after the utility proposes its changes, which is said will happen in July.
In the meantime, opponents of changing the program, mostly large rooftop-installation companies that will have a hard time selling solar panels if people can’t get credit for the energy they produce, have been preempting the proposal.
