The Solar Energy Industries Association just launched a new campaign website inviting consumers to sign a Solar Bill of Rights intended to encourage lawmakers to provide policy support to deploy more solar, sooner.

More than 1,100 individuals have already taken the initiative to sign the Solar Bill of Rights. By signing your name you join voices with other Americans to urge lawmakers in Washington D.C. to give the U.S. solar industry a fair competitive environment.

SEIA’s eight rights include:

1. Americans have the right to put solar on their homes and businesses
2. Americans have the right to connect their solar energy system to the grid with uniform national standards
3. Americans have the right to net meter and be compensated at the very least with full retail electricity rates
4. The solar industry has the right to a fair competitive environment
5. The solar industry has the right to produce clean energy on public lands
6. The solar industry has the right to sell its power across a new, 21st century transmission grid
7. Americans have the right to buy solar electricity from their utility
8. Americans have the right to – and should expect – the highest ethical treatment from the solar industry

For more information on the Solar Bill of Rights and the eight individual rights, visit: http://www.solarbillofrights.us/

Solar energy is a clean, reliable energy source that is creating tens of thousands of American jobs that can’t be exported.