WyoFile reports the #pluginpv draft legislation in #Wyoming (House Bill 14) that would have cleared issues around #balconysolar died on the committee stage.

Apparently (unfounded) safety concerns such as overheating wires or #linemen getting zapped (a special American fear) stopped the legislation.

But the Republican committee chair thinks “there’s nothing prohibiting the use of them” (right now).

https://wyofile.com/lawmakers-pull-the-cord-on-plug-in-solar-bill/

Here it comes Rural Electrification Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture / [193-]
1 print (poster) : color ; 101 x 76 cm. | Poster shows a lineman with an electric line.

#101x76cm #HereItComes #posters #publicrelations #linemen #electriclines #color #unitedstates #prints #electricity #american #photopgraphy #LibraryOfCongress

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2010650609/

southern new hampshire
september 1959

linemen

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/51869423982
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/17010710752/

part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf

© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com

#photography #film #blackandwhite #bw #newhampshire #linemen #people #ladders #powerlines #wires #workers #1950s

southern new hampshire
september 1959

linemen

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/51844256978
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/16389717074/

part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf

© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com

#photography #film #blackandwhite #bw #newhampshire #powerlines #telephonelines #wires #ladder #people #workers #linemen #1950s