Posted on 05/07/2018 8:53:14 AM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at engadget.com ...
“Thus raising the price of single-family homes and apartments, thus putting them out of the reach of normal people, thus increasing homelessness.”
Hence, the “Affordable Housing CRISIS!!!!!” the Soros Dems have been trying to push as a narrative for the last two months.
so this will add 30K to 60K to the price of a new home?
“so this will add 30K to 60K to the price of a new home?”
According to the article, their position is that it will add $25,000 to $30,000 of additional cost to the home, but claim the homeowner will save double that over 25 years.
It is reasonable to assume that actual costs may be higher in practice. As another poster pointed out, experience in practice also showed that projected savings often come in around only a third of projections.
Adding $20,000 to a $500,000 house isn’t a big deal for the crazies in California.
That is a good point. We should never forget that the fudge factor in every calculation ever done by a greenie pushing solar has been made with a bunch of dubious assumptions. The actual amount of useful power produced at current rates will most likely be in the neighborhood of $10,000 or less over 25 years. And this will be generated without any consideration for the needs of the grid. It is a huge unfunded mandate that hopefully will be challenged and not hold up in court.
Why does anyone stay in Californication?
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Just watch. Californians will be forced to buy and install these solar panels and then they’ll be made to pay property tax on them and the state will very likely tax any electricity they make.
That state is soooooooooooooooo screwed!!!
Wow, I had no clue 560,000 high paid techies replaced those 560,000 moderately paid white collar and blue collar workers.
/Sarcasm
Can someone tell me, if solar panels are cost effective to install? I mean would they heat your water? Would they run your refrigerator or your A/C?
I have solar powered wireless blinds for my condo. I love them. They are amazing. They are small, about the size of a cell phone.
The top of each cell has a conductive layer on it. In some cell designs, this layer has fingers of conducive martial that is visible to the eye. But the entire cell is one giant PN junction that would act as an antenna for the E field. In fact EMP is rated for the rise time and the estimated volts per meter that its E field would induce in any properly oriented conductor.
See slide #2. Note “metallic conducting strips” on graphic of a cell:
https://www.slideshare.net/manavshah735/soldering-of-polycrystalline-silicon-solar-cell
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