Putting Green in the Tea Party, She Crusades for Clean Power<br />“Debbie is being a little bit of a trailblazer on the climate issue,<br />but she was always a trailblazer on clean energy,” said Stephen Smith, executive director of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, an environmental advocacy group based in Knoxville, Tenn.<br />Ms. Dooley sees the Trump administration’s tariffs on solar-panel imports as the latest in a series of impediments to clean energy.<br />Proponents of residential solar power like Ms. Dooley accuse utility companies<br />and the energy industry at large of waging war on efforts to free consumers from their power companies, even if only for a slightly lower electric bill.<br />Cumulative installed solar photovoltaic capacity by state<br />STATE WON BY TRUMP IN 2016<br />Through third quarter of 2017, in gigawatts<br />RESIDENTIAL SOLAR CAPACITY<br />UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR CAPACITY<br />Cumulative installed solar photovoltaic<br />Florida Power & Light and Duke Energy spent a combined $14.8 million on the referendum campaign.<br />The monopoly control of utilities over energy supplies stands in contrast to the<br />free market, she said, while solar and wind power represent energy freedom.
