Meeting America’s Energy Challenge

Solar Nation, a program of the American Solar Energy Society, is a national campaign working to harness the overwhelming public support that exists for solar energy. With this support we can positively affect state and federal policy, enabling solar power to become a significant part of America’s energy future.

For advocacy groups with similar interests, Solar Nation provides a central rallying point, a place where long-term mutual goals are linked to specific policy actions. Solar Nation tracks down key opportunities for reaching these goals and builds the alliances needed to achieve them.

The Solar Nation Manifesto

Solar Nation will speak up to advance the use of renewable — especially solar — energy by encouraging policy change, informing political leaders and candidates about solar power, and helping to shape policy platforms at the local, state and federal level. Solar Nation will also speak out, not only against the competing use of dirty and dangerous fossil fuels or nuclear power, but also in opposition to lobby-influenced legislation or policy that favors such energy choices.

The campaign has a three-pronged strategy. You can read about it here.

The kind of grassroots activism that Solar Nation generates has been proven to be effective. After fifty thousand Californians e-mailed their Public Utilities Commission in support of a major solar initiative, the commissioners cited the strong public support represented by the emails as an influential factor in their decision to approve it.

Solar Nation — a campaign of renewable energy outreach, organization and action — extends its reach through an Action Network of committed organizations to steer the course of the nation toward a future of clean energy.

Won’t you become a solar citizen? If you do, you will be part of a powerful new movement that will strike a blow against global warming and secure America’s energy future for generations to come.