Solar power is booming all across the country, including right here in Indiana. Companies such as Cummins and Eli Lilly want to cut their carbon footprint. Utilities are retiring coal plants and replacing them with renewables.
But this increase isn’t happening only at that large scale. Homeowners want solar, too. They want to cut back on their electricity bills and they want to use clean energy.
That interest has really come to a head in the last two years. During the pandemic, many families were at home using more electricity and were looking to cover some of that with solar.
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In that time, the state’s net metering program — which gave solar owners a credit for energy they sent back to the grid — also was fading out. All this created a mad rush, said Zach Schalk, the Indiana program director for Solar United Neighbors.
The highly charged atmosphere also created the perfect environment for solar scams.
“Unfortunately, I would say this is something in my mind that really exploded in the COVID era,” he said.
That’s why, for this edition of the Scrub Hub, we will be unpacking solar scams. We will be answering the questions: What are they? And how do you spot them?
We spoke with Schalk and looked at a few different resources, such as the Better Business Bureau, to bring Hoosiers everything they need to know about these scams.
Short Answer: What is a solar scam?
So what is…
