The battle for California's rooftop solar
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
A third of all the nation's rooftop solar panels are in California.
Now, the California public utilities commission says it’s time to pull back the support.
We discuss the battle for California’s rooftop solar. Matt Freedman and Terry Tamminen join Meghna Chakrabarti.
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| 0:30.8 | In 2006, then Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed California's Million Solar Roofs initiative. |
| 0:41.4 | The goal was right in the name, one million rooftop solar energy systems across the Golden |
| 0:47.0 | State. |
| 0:48.0 | The million solar roofs will provide 3,000 megawatts, which is an equivalent of powering a million |
| 0:54.6 | homes. |
| 0:56.2 | And it is a clean energy, which means there will be a reduction of greenhouse gas. |
| 1:02.4 | There will be going to the atmosphere by 3 million tons. |
| 1:06.9 | 3 million tons. |
| 1:07.9 | This is an equivalent of taking 1 million cars off the road. |
| 1:12.4 | California's Public Utilities Commission was a key player in the effort, offering homeowners |
| 1:17.5 | with rooftop solar attractive incentives such as credits for electricity they generated |
| 1:22.8 | but did not use. |
| 1:24.7 | And it worked. |
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