{"id":134425,"date":"2022-01-20T19:24:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T03:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/is-the-california-solar-dream-fading-fast"},"modified":"2022-01-20T19:24:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T03:24:43","slug":"is-the-california-solar-dream-fading-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/is-the-california-solar-dream-fading-fast","title":{"rendered":"Is The California Solar Dream Fading Fast?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/is-the-california-solar-dream-fading-fast2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>California has more rooftops with solar panels than any other state and continues to be a leader in new installations. It is also <a href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2020\/10\/05\/top-us-states-for-percentage-of-electricity-from-solar-cleantechnica-report\/\">first<\/a> in terms of the percentage of the state\u2019s electricity coming from solar, and <a href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2020\/10\/04\/top-solar-power-states-per-capita-cleantechnica-report\/\">third<\/a> for solar power capacity per capita. However, former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has expressed concerns that California solar \u2014 once the model for other US states \u2014 is on a precipice. In an opinion piece for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/17\/opinion\/schwarzenegger-solar-power-california.html?campaign_id=2&emc=edit_th_20220118&instance_id=50587&nl=todaysheadlines&regi_id=89451412&segment_id=79987&user_id=ff9144651f66150a360c02b9bf96a72e\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a> this week, Schwarzenegger has unpacked a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpuc.ca.gov\/industries-and-topics\/electrical-energy\/demand-side-management\/net-energy-metering\/nem-revisit\/net-billing-tariff-fact-sheet\">California Public Utilities Commission proposal<\/a> which, if approved, would discourage progress being made in the transition to clean energy and grid resilience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s the problem, then?<\/strong> The California Public Utilities Commission is <a href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2021\/04\/04\/some-in-california-want-to-slow-rooftop-solar-adoption-does-that-make-sense\/\">threatening solar progress<\/a>. But this \u201chard-earned and vitally important accomplishment\u201d may succumb as the Commission considers a plan that has the potential to make California solar too costly for its citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California has more rooftops with solar panels than any other state and continues to be a leader in new installations. It is also first in terms of the percentage of the state\u2019s electricity coming from solar, and third for solar power capacity per capita. However, former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has expressed concerns that California [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}