{"id":78403,"date":"2018-05-07T07:02:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T14:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/california-to-require-solar-panels-on-most-new-homes"},"modified":"2018-05-09T11:05:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T18:05:33","slug":"california-to-require-solar-panels-on-most-new-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/california-to-require-solar-panels-on-most-new-homes","title":{"rendered":"California to require solar panels on most new homes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There\u2019s no question that solar power is entering the mainstream<\/a>, but California is about to give it a giant boost. The state\u2019s Energy Commission is expected<\/a> 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\u2019t fit solar panels or would be blocked by taller buildings or trees, but you\u2019ll otherwise have<\/em> to go green if your property is brand new.<\/p>\n

The plan doesn\u2019t require that a home reach net-zero status (where the solar power completely offsets the energy consumed in a year). However, it does provide \u201ccompliance credits\u201d for homebuilders who install storage batteries like Tesla\u2019s Powerwall<\/a>, letting them build smaller panel arrays knowing that excess energy will be available to use off-hours.<\/p>\n

The new standards are poised to hike construction costs by $25,000 to $30,000 (about half of which is directly due to solar), but the self-produced energy is estimated to save owners $50,000 to $60,000 in operating costs over the solar technology\u2019s expected 25-year lifespan.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s no question that solar power is entering the mainstream, but California is about to give it a giant boost. The state\u2019s 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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78403","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78489,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78403\/revisions\/78489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}