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Donald Trump’s war on renewables
TAG ALONG with Mary Powell on a field visit to San Jose, California, and you might think you are looking at the bright future of clean energy in America. Sunrun, the residential solar firm she heads, helps consumers manage energy services in 22 states. One of her California customers, a hard-nosed engineer in Silicon Valley, shows off solar panels and batteries leased from Sunrun. A greater attraction for him than greenery, he says, is that the kit keeps his lights on during outages: and it works out cheaper than getting power from the local utility.