Solar Industry Learns Lessons in Spanish Sun

NYTimes.com
When I was a TV consumer reporter in the early 1980s in Northeast Wisconsin, I did story after story about questionable companies selling passive solar energy panels and wind turbines to homeowners. Many of the products I saw didn't work very well or broke down. Government was giving tax breaks to promote alternative energy.
I also won a major Texas journalism award exposing the city of Dallas' inept administration of a program to help poor people hire minority contractors to do home weatherization. These things sound great but they often don't work out for consumers.