Marta Gonzalez is a Contributing Editor at Energy Clean Source, covering solar incentives, net metering legislation, utility policy, and state-level renewable energy programs.
Marta’s background is in energy policy analysis. She has tracked state public utility commission (PUC) proceedings related to distributed solar, net metering rate changes, and interconnection requirements across multiple states. Solar policy changes quickly — net metering structures that applied when a system was installed may be renegotiated years later, and many homeowners are not aware of how these changes affect the economics of their systems.
At Energy Clean Source, Marta explains federal and state incentive programs in plain language: what the federal Investment Tax Credit (ITC) covers, how state tax credits interact with the federal credit, which states have solar renewable energy certificate (SREC) markets worth participating in, and how utility rebate programs actually work versus how they are advertised.
She monitors state legislative sessions for solar-related policy and covers significant net metering and interconnection rule changes as they occur.