Mike is the point person at Connecticut Solar & Storage Association, representing member company's business interests before state regulators, the Connecticut General Assembly, state agencies and the Connecticut Green Bank.  In recent years, Mike has led passage or defeat of legislation that strengthen or threatened the state solar market. He worked with Energy Committee chairs to write the law that exempts commercial solar from property tax. He secured lawmaker support to create the new General Assembly Clean Energy Caucus to better educate lawmakers on new renewable technologies and related legislation. Mike rallied solar and efficiency contractors to initiate a lawsuit v. State of Connecticut to return $150M raided from ratepayer funds; worked with State Building officials to rewrite draft fire code proposals on setbacks and pathways; won approvals from PURA to update interconnection guidelines for home solar, lower the commercial ZREC cap, and expand CT's voltage variation regulation saving SolarConn members hundreds of thousands of dollars on equipment upgrade costs. Mike also proposed new statewide solar policy concepts as an appointed member to Connecticut Governor-Elect Dannel Malloy (2012) and Governor-Elect Ned Lamont (2018) Transition Team Energy Working Groups. And he conceived the concept and was co-winner of a DOE grant to pursue multi-state partnership of solar associations representing more than 500 solar businesses in the Northeast U.S. designed to create solar policy harmony across state lines.