Category: California
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California’s largest CCA solar project to-date highlights the use of local, union labor
The largest renewable energy installation ever built for a California Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) agency is officially online. Peninsula Clean Energy this month began providing more solar power to California’s San Mateo County from the 200-MW utility-scale Wright Solar Project located in the nearby Central Valley. Peninsula Clean Energy has anRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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California new-build solar mandate crash course
2020 – the dawn of the Solar+ Decade – kicks off with the official launch of California’s much heralded (and controversial) Building Energy Efficiency Standards Title 24 mandate that all new residential construction include a solar energy component. If you spent most of 2019 trapped in a well or waitingRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Bullet dodged or delayed? California’s new home solar mandate still on track after CEC passes on SMUD proposal
Not sure if you noticed, but California’s new home solar mandate is almost here (we’ve only written like 20,000 words on it so far, with more coming this week), but some homebuilders and utilities are still not that thrilled about it. Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) being the most notable afterRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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The allure of energy storage in today’s wildfire-ravaged climate
Part IV of Solar Builder’s excellent Countdown to 2020 series about California’s new home solar mandate included this statement: “Speakers at the California Solar Power Expo… expect homebuilders to skip solar-only systems to comply with the Title 24 mandate and go straight to solar + storage systems.” Is that expectationRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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California PUC approves $120 million to help disadvantaged communities go solar
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) voted yesterday to approve program implementation for the Disadvantaged Communities – Single-family Solar Homes (DAC-SASH) program. A major new investment in expanding solar access, DAC-SASH aims to increase the adoption of clean, affordable solar power by low-income households in disadvantaged communities. It builds offRead More — Solar Builder magazine