California to require solar panels on most new homes

Engadget ^ | 6 May 2018 | Jon Fingas

[BeauBo]

The state's Energy Commission is expected to approve new energy standards that would require solar panels on the roofs of nearly all new homes, condos and apartment buildings from 2020 onward. There will be exemptions for homes that either can't fit solar panels or would be blocked by taller buildings or trees, but you'll otherwise have to go green if your property is brand new.

[BeauBo]

Interesting that this will be mandated by un-elected regulators, rather than legislators.

It might help out in scenarios where the electric grid goes down though, like big earthquakes.

[fwdude]

Interesting that this will be mandated by un-elected regulators, rather than legislators.

Or appointed judges.

[spokeshave2]

Good luck when global cooling kicks in and all the solar panels are covered in snow and ice.

[BenLurkin]

Over tax, over spend, over regulate.

Sure fire recipe for social failure.

[Magnum44]

Cost of CA housing to further go up. Politically driven. Not market driven.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Liberal politicians getting kickbacks would be my guess.

[oldbrowser]

I wonder if these regulators might have some scam to enrich themselves from this regulation?

[jaydubya2]

Solar panels are so good they have to force everybody to use them?

[unixfox]

Find out which politicians invested in solar companies and there you have it.

[robroys woman]

They must plan on some solar cell factories being built in CA.

CA has gone full fascism.

[DCBryan1]

So glad my inlaws fled Thousand Oaks, CA last month......

[Grampa Dave]

Amen!

“Cost of CA housing to further go up. Politically driven. Not market driven.”

[I want the USA back]

Thus raising the price of single-family homes and apartments, thus putting them out of the reach of normal people, thus increasing homelessness.

You liberals! stay the f*ck the hell out of things you don’t understand, like the free market economy.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Meanwhile, in related news today...

With no letup in home prices, the California exodus surges, by Andrea Riquier, May 7, 2018, Market Watch.
The median sale price for a home in California is more than double that in the rest of the nation

Mandatory solar...all to prevent burning evil fossil fuels to prevent the hoax of global warming / cooling / disruption / etc from happening.

[CodeToad]

So, Kali adds a tax of at least $25,000 to every home.

[PGR88]

Dead Kennedy Prophecy from 1978! It was satire at the time - not so much now!

I am Governor Jerry Brown
My aura smiles and never frowns
Soon I will be president
Carter power will soon go ‘way
I will be Führer one day
I will command all of you
Your kids will meditate in school
Your kids will meditate in school

California Über Alles
California Über Alles
Über Alles California
Über Alles California

Zen fascists will control you
Hundred percent natural
You will jog for the master race
And always wear the happy face
Close your eyes, can’t happen here
Big Bro’ on white horse is near
The hippies won’t come back, you say
Mellow out or you will pay
Mellow out or you will pay

California Über Alles
California Über Alles
Über Alles California
Über Alles California

Now it is nineteen eighty-four
Knock-knock at your front door
It’s the suede denim secret police
They have come for your uncool niece
Come quietly to the camp
You’d look nice as a drawstring lamp
Don’t you worry, it’s only a shower
For your clothes, here’s a pretty flower
Die on organic poison gas
Serpent’s egg’s already hatched
You will croak, you little clown
When you mess with President Brown
When you mess with President Brown

[rktman]

If it can save one child............ Oh, different screed. Guess no one cares about the nasty stuff created making these panels? Someone posted a chart of the process involved and it wasn’t pretty as I recall.

[FLT-bird]

Will they require solar panels for all the tents bums live in?

[Empire_of_Liberty]

I could wish that these things worked, but I don’t think they do. They’re like T Boon Pickin’s (sp) windmills. They are a total boondoggle. The only way that they “work” is by laws compelling the power company to pay you for what they are supposedly generating. I can’t wait to see power generation grind to a halt in the state under the weight of this.

[No Socialist]

This should help make housing more affordable for the working class. /s

If people wanted them, builders would all ready be putting them on new homes.

What a waste of hard earned money, something the government weasels know nothing about.