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Right now, about one in five new homes in California comes with solar panels already installed. In two years, it will be all of them.
On Wednesday, California Energy Commission's vote was unanimous: California will soon become the first state to require solar panels on all new homes and on residential buildings smaller than four stories.
The law, which takes effect Jan. 1, 2020, specifies the minimum size of the system would be based on the size of the building and can vary between 2 and 7 kilowatts of output per dwelling.
California mandates solar panels on all new homes by 2020
Also at https://www.nytimes.com
An editorial in the Los Angeles Times expresses support for the measure.
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California Mandates Solar Panels on New Homes Under 4 Stories by 2020
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by frojack on Saturday May 12 2018, @06:56PM
They said the same thing about requiring electricity in homes, egress windows, and sewer connections, and adherence to electrical codes.
Its bullshit, as is most of your rant. (Seriously, what are you going on about?).
If there's any place that should have massive solar, if for no other reason than to charge the electric car, or run the hvac, it is California.
If the panels 15 years, and ALL they do is run the air conditioning, it saves money. It also saves damming another river, building another fossil fuel generation plant, or another nuclear facility.
How can you mention rolling blackouts/burnouts in your first sentence, and spend the rest of your post raging about obscure imagined problems?
There's no point in waiting till its perfect before requiring it. There's no way it gets cheap before it gets plentiful. And there's few places in the country where ROI within 3 years is as guaranteed as California.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.