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Melissa Hughes: “We were just about to launch what's called the Solar for All…”

Featuring: Melissa Hughes, Secretary and CEO of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation

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WI Gubernatorial Candidate Missy Huges Speaks at CoCo Dems Headquarters

Published | Video Starts at 42:20

And require businesses when they put up a huge building, that they actually put solar panels up on the roof rather than just not. Yeah, that was one of the most, I think, frustrating moments for me as secretary. We were just about to launch what's called the Solar for All program, which would have been putting solar on homes and help businesses do that. We were just about to fund a green bank, which helps with financing for those things. Those were both going to happen at wedc, and all of those resources got pulled back by the Trump administration. (42:20–42:31)

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Asserts that the Solar for All program was planned to install solar on homes and assist businesses.

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