The Burlington Free Press reports that "Sen. Bernie Sanders will spend the week touring solar energy projects in Nevada and New Mexico as he introduces legislation designed to boost the use of solar power." The legislation which Sanders will introduce this week would "provide tax rebates to consumers who install solar power. The rebates would cost an estimated $10 billion a year, which is expected to be the major stumbling block for the legislation."

During his tour out west, Sanders will visit "Nevada's Nellis Air Force Base, which gets about 25 percent of its electricity from solar photovoltaic panels" and "the country's first large-scale solar thermal plant in Boulder City, Nev., which provides power to more than 14,000 households." While in New Mexico, he will "participate in a Senate energy committee field hearing to examine the progress of electricity generation from solar power."

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