📋 Clean Energy Scams Exploit The ‘Green Halo’ (AARP Article)

[Winter2024]

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Clean Energy Scams Surge.

How to spot and avoid scammers touting big savings from bogus solar and other clean energy plans.

By Sari Harrar, AARP. Published September 11, 2024.

Carliss Wileman wasn’t really interested in solar panels for her New Caney, Texas, home. But when a solar energy salesman stopped by in May 2022 promising no more electric bills and a $30,000 tax rebate, she signed a form on his iPad that she thought was just paperwork. “Now I have an $89,000 loan, 50 panels on my roof, and my porch leaks,” says the 75-year-old retired bar and restaurant owner.

Wileman says she never applied for the loan, never received a tax incentive because she doesn’t pay income tax, and her solar panels “may work a little, but my electric bills are higher for some reason.”

Her experience is not uncommon.

https://www.aarp.org/money/scams-fraud/info-2024/clean-energy-scams.html