{"id":2901,"date":"2026-03-23T12:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T18:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/?p=2901"},"modified":"2026-03-28T07:01:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T13:01:02","slug":"balcony-solar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2026\/03\/23\/balcony-solar\/","title":{"rendered":"Balcony Solar"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n  If a bill introduced in the Legislature passes this session, a small solar array would be a mere plug in away for Minnesotans.<\/p>\n<p>  The legislation would establish regulations for installation and operation of plug-in solar devices. Also known as balcony solar, homeowners or renters could place units outside near an outlet as a way to harness solar energy and cut down on surging electricity bills.<\/p>\n<p>  The idea is to \u201cdemocratize\u201d solar, making renewable energy more accessible, said Sen. Rob Kupec, DFL-Moorhead, the bill\u2019s author in the Senate.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/state-government\/2026\/03\/plug-and-play-bill-would-power-up-plug-in-solar-power-in-minnesota-homes\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Daily%20newsletter%2003%2F23%2F2026&amp;utm_source=3631302e9c\">Plug-in solar power bill would power up Minnesota homes &#8211; MinnPost<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is just such an obvious win. I&#8217;d love to hang a few more off my balcony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a bill introduced in the Legislature passes this session, a small solar array would be a mere plug in away for Minnesotans. The legislation would establish regulations for installation and operation of plug-in solar devices. Also known as balcony solar, homeowners or renters could place units outside near an outlet as a way to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-KN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2903,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions\/2903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}