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for the week of November 16th, 2015, this is the Energy Gang from Green Tech Media.

Welcome, I'm Stephen Lacy, and we are here live at the American Association of Clean Coal Electricity.

Oh wait, wait, wait, wrong conference.

This week we are live in Washington, D.C. at MDVC's Solar Focus Conference.

We are sitting in front of a room of solar professionals.

Let's hear it from the folks out there.

Send a little love to with people back here. In this episode we'll

be talking about what role utilities play in implementing solar and other distributed resources.

We'll start with a conceptual framework in our first segment.

Then we'll look at some specific utility programs and proposals in our second and in our last

segment we'll talk about the investment tax credit

something that I know many people in this room are discussing both the politics and

the business impact of a phase down. We will of course wrap up by

telling you something you may not know.

Let's introduce the gang. You'll notice it's a slightly different gang this time around.

Jigger could not be with us. He had to spend some time with a new member of his family and I said

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