10.31.07
Things I like about California
Californians quite likely will install more solar power generating capacity this year than in the previous 26 years combined, according to a new report from the California Public Utilities Commission on the progress of California’s $3.3 billion California Solar Initiative. The taxpayer-funded program that rebates to homeowners, businesses and non-profits that install solar panel, says Californians are going solar at record rates.
The California Solar Initiative pays a rebate of $2.50 per watt generated by a solar array.
The program’s goal is to generate 3 gigawatts of solar electricity by the year 2016. Between January and mid-September, the CSI received 5,109 applications which, if approved, would add 160 megawatts of solar energy. ” The report says requests for the incentives are on track to exceed this year California’s total installed solar from the previous 26 years.The report says 90 percent of the applications received this year are for residential rooftop solar panels, but 87 percent of the additional solar power would actually come from the larger solar arrays that make up the other 10 percent - to be installed by business, governments and non-profits.
You can read the report here though it’s a bit boring and technical. The bottom line is this: California is a hot, hot hot market for solar arrays.
fight4 solar panel said,
4 November 2007 at 7:07 am
Yeah! California best investement place for solar power!