Tag archives: solar
It will be a consequential summer for energy policy in Santa Barbara County. Currently, you can drill for oil, but you can’t put a solar farm in the same industrial site. That is set to reverse with a Solar Ordinance to allow solar in industrial and agricultural zones coming to County Supervisors on July 14 […]
A practical guide to financing home energy in California’s new reality California homeowners are being encouraged to electrify their lives. Replace the gas furnace with a heat pump. Swap the water heater for an electric model. Purchase an EV. Install induction cooking. State and local programs continue to support many of these transitions. On its […]
California once proudly led the nation in solar energy adoption, pioneering policies that made rooftop solar accessible and affordable to millions. Yet today Governor Gavin Newsom, his appointed California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), and powerful utilities like PG&E and Southern California Edison (SCE) are engaged in what can only be described as a coordinated vendetta […]
Entering the Santa Barbara Club this summer, I met with the newly elected Montecito Association member, Stan Roden – a former Santa Barbara County District Attorney now working as a climate ambassador and filmmaker. Having heard of his interest in guiding the community towards more sustainable and resilient practices, especially amidst the ever-growing environment turmoil, […]
Last summer, just a couple of months before Montecito Journal’s 2nd annual The Giving List book was published, Clean Coalition’s work to stage a Community Microgrid in Montecito – a first step toward establishing renewables-driven energy resilience for the vulnerable area – was still largely in the planning stage. The goal to establish individual Solar […]
Investor-Owned Utilities (“Utilities”) are plotting to kill California’s solar program. Apparently, avarice, and the ability to get away with causing 85 percent of area lost in recent forest fires in California, are not enough, and they are now coming up with ways to dramatically reduce all new solar installations in California. Can you believe that […]
