Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here. Welcome to another edition of Full Measure After

Hours. Today, how the first in the nation's solar mandate is working out so far.

Somewhere around about three years ago, I traveled to California to do a story on the nation's

first solar mandate. I can't believe it's already been about three years. California, though,

was the first state to require all new homes have solar power. And while most people probably

like the idea of solar energy, I know I do. It presents a lot of complex issues as I learned.

That's why I decided to take the tack of interviewing not somebody who is four solar and

somebody who was against solar. But I interviewed solar advocates who are on opposite sides of

whether this particular solar mandate was something that would be effective,

clean for the environment, cost-effective, and work all the way around. So to refresh your memory,

here is my original report. I called it solar opposites January 27, 2019.

California is the first state to require all new homes have solar power. That could leave the

way for other states to follow suit and who doesn't love the idea of free, clean energy from the sun.

But it's not quite that simple. It turns out free can be costly and clean can be dirty.

Today's cover story is solar opposites.

California leads the nation and use of sun-driven power with projects like the historic Los Angeles YNCA.

Built in 1928 has a new system of solar panels and solar hot water saving money on energy.

Solar power has come a long way since the first sun-powered telephone call using a solar battery in

Georgia in 1955.

California architect Vitas Motari shows why California is perfectly situated to soak up the sun.

This is carbon canyon and you're looking at another street up here called coal canyon road.

Yet despite the golden state's optimal positioning, climate, and solar innovations,

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