Connecticut’s Solar Incentives Dry Up - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Connecticut’s touted solar rebate program, which experts have pointed to as exemplary, may not be so perfect after all. Six months into its current two-year budget cycle, it is nearly out of cash, leaving homeowners, businesses, and nonprofit and governmental organizations that want to buy solar electric systems out of luck.
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When solar thermal incentives ended in the mid 1980s, it all but killed the solar industry.

At what point does the solar industry have to operate on its own, without being propped up by large subsidies?

Beijing's coldest December day in 57 years

Winter truly arrived in Beijing yesterday with the highest temperature of the day down to minus 8.8 ℃. Media reports say it was "the coldest day in December in the last 57 years."