SF Sunset Solar Project moves forward to full vote on April 28
I had no idea it would be this hard to do a serious solar project in the city of San Francisco. No idea at all. On Wednesday, the SF Budget and Finance Committee, after vigorous discussion and tons of...
View ArticleMunicipal Solar Financing Legislation Enacted in Five States, and Counting.
Posted by Annie Carmichael State Legislation Maryland, New Mexico and Virginia just joined the municipal-tax assessment solar financing party (a trend I wrote about in February). We haven’t figured out...
View ArticleSFSunset Solar Project passes
Francesca Vietor and I wrote an op-ed in the SF Chronicle in support, Board of Supes voted 7-4 for it, Sweet Melissa and the NYTimes blog each provided their take of the action, and now SF is on the...
View ArticleSolarTech Permitting Symposium
On Dec 3, SolarTech is sponsoring a symposium here in San Francisco to discuss a systems approach to dealing with the solar permitting challenge. It’s got a great line-up of participants, including...
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SF green-lights country's biggest PACE program
Moments ago, on a sunny rooftop just across town from Vote Solar’s office, Mayor Gavin Newsom signed the final piece of legislation needed to get San Francisco’s PACE program off the ground. When it...
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5 MW SF Sunset Reservoir project under construction
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is installing 5 MW of PV on the Sunset Reservoir (technically, under a PPA with Recurrent Energy). The mayor held a press event today to celebrate…well,...
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San Francisco wants to go 100% renewable
Outgoing Mayor Gavin Newsom’s launches one last initiative before leaving for Lt Gov duties in Sacramento: a goal of 100% renewable power for SF by 2020. That’s bold, but more importantly, it gives us...
View ArticleMany hands make LIGHT work with GroupEnergy
Vote Solar’s GroupEnergy project is focused on propelling solar adoption by helping existing groups – think coworkers, clubs or congregations – pool their collective purchasing power to go solar at...
View ArticleGoSolarSF Progress Report: Economic & Environmental Benefits of San...
Massive reductions in the price of solar means that more Americans are benefiting from this bill-saving, job-creating homegrown resource. Residential solar adoption is through the roof even as...
View ArticleHelping Communities Harness the Power of Solar
Did you know there is already enough solar installed on American rooftops and lands to power more than 3.5 million homes – a number that is rising daily. In other words, the sun has been working hard ....
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