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Robin Dutta

Robin Dutta

Executive Director of the Chesapeake Solar and Storage Association (CHESSA), a solar and storage policy advocate for Maryland, Virginia, and DC.

Oct 29, 2026

2:07
So I'm curious, if I'm running a solar and storage company or broadly a clean energy company here in this region, what has materially changed about my reality and my business environment over the last year?
2:19
Well, first, thanks, Nico, for being here.
2:22
It's exciting to be interviewed in front of an audience as well.
2:26
This is new for me.
2:27
I think what's also new to me was the repeal of the investment tax credit.
2:31
I think what's changed in the last year begins there.
2:35
I was working on federal affairs around the Inflation Reduction Act, so it's been really jarring for me personally to have worked on that piece, helped to get things like interconnection as an eligible cost in the tax credit over the finish line, Be actually on the South Lawn of the White House celebrating the most ambitious climate law ever passed in the United States and then see it pretty much repealed three years later and then be in this position to work on, you know, the ripple effects and and, you know, basically it's red alert and everyone's holding on for dear life.
4:25
But I'm curious where you see the policy fights right now, maybe the ones that even are not so in the headlines, but you have to focus on?

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