California Solar Plan Expected to Pass

Utne Web Watch
by Leif Utne, Utne.com

The Golden State is about to tap its largest potential energy resource in a big way. The "Million Solar Roofs" initiative, a proposal to spur construction of residential solar power through $3 billion in utility rebates, is expected to unanimously pass the California Public Utilities Commission on January 12. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger brought the plan to the commission in December after it stalled last year in the state legislature over a partisan dispute over whether to require union labor. "With rising energy prices and continued air pollution, this is exactly the kind of landmark initiative California needs,'' Bernadette Del Chiaro, clean energy advocate for Environment California, told the Associated Press. "From this, we're going to see cleaner air, affordable solar energy, and California regaining its world leadership in solar power.'' The program will make California the largest producer of solar power in the nation, and second in the world only to Germany.

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