{"id":19721,"date":"2013-12-10T15:11:25","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T15:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/?p=314772"},"modified":"2013-12-10T15:11:25","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T15:11:25","slug":"top-solar-cities-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/top-solar-cities-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Solar Cities in California"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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California is used to top rankings when it comes to solar energy, and that isn’t expected to change when full data for 2013 is released.<\/p>\n

Back in March, the Solar Energy Industries Association<\/a> predicted a first-place finish<\/a> for California in solar photovoltaic (PV) installations in three categories—residential, non-residential and utility. Consider that California received massive investments like $103 million from Google<\/a> this year for the 265.7-megawatt (MW) Mount Signal Solar project to be operational in 2014 and it’s safe to assume the state will remain near the top for years to come.<\/p>\n

Sunible<\/a>, a website created by PV Solar Report, says some of the top solar PV cities in California also carry modest median incomes. Cost of Solar<\/a>, an online energy resource and national network of solar installers, which also carried Sunible’s report, estimates that it cost about $14,000<\/a> less to go solar in California than in the most expensive states.<\/p>\n

“Many of the leading solar cities in California are median-income communities like Fresno, Clovis, El Cajon, and Chico,” Rosana Francescato of Sunible writes. “According to the most recent census data, Fresno’s median annual income was just over $41,000. Yet, Fresno is near the top of the Solar Cities<\/em> list, at No. 3 in installs for [the first quarter of] 2013.”<\/p>\n[caption id=\"attachment_314788\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"500\"]\"Graph<\/a> Graph credit: Sunible and PV Solar Report[\/caption]\n

Here are the top 25 cities in California, in terms of PV installations:<\/p>\n

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  1. San Diego<\/li>\n
  2. Bakersfield<\/li>\n
  3. Fresno<\/li>\n
  4. Los Angeles<\/li>\n
  5. San Jose<\/li>\n
  6. Murrieta<\/li>\n
  7. Clovis<\/li>\n
  8. Corona<\/li>\n
  9. Escondido<\/li>\n
  10. Temecula<\/li>\n
  11. Palm Springs<\/li>\n
  12. El Cajon<\/li>\n
  13. Santa Clarita<\/li>\n
  14. Apple Valley<\/li>\n
  15. Chico<\/li>\n
  16. Palmdale<\/li>\n
  17. Rancho Mirage<\/li>\n
  18. Northridge<\/li>\n
  19. Palm Desert<\/li>\n
  20. Visalia<\/li>\n
  21. Ramona<\/li>\n
  22. Pleasanton<\/li>\n
  23. Lancaster<\/li>\n
  24. Riverside<\/li>\n
  25. Rancho Cucamonga<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This list is based on the number of installations completed between quarter one of 2012 and the first quarter of this year.<\/p>\n

    “The increase of third-party-owned solar in California’s top cities today verses 2008 shows how crucial that model has been to spreading solar on rooftops,” says Stephen Torres, founder and CEO of Sunible.<\/p>\n

    “It’s really exciting to see that in the last five years, more homeowners of all incomes have been able to power their homes with solar.”<\/p>\n

    Visit EcoWatch’s RENEWABLES<\/strong><\/a> page for more related news on this topic.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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