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February 24, 2020

California’s solar mandate to allow homes without solar

  • Regulators approved a plan for a Sacramento utility to build its own large-scale solar site that homeowners can tap into.
    • By CUNEYT DIL
    Associated Press

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Over the objections of environmentalists, California regulators approved a proposal Thursday to allow builders to construct homes without solar panels, a decision critics said undercuts California’s seven-week-old law that all new houses have their own solar power.

    At a passionate hearing, the California Energy Commission unanimously approved the Sacramento Municipal Utility District’s plan to build its own large-scale solar site that homeowners can tap into, forgoing the need for solar on each new home.


     
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