Speaking of roofs – as we were in the last post below – here’s an item from CleanTechnica on the passage of draft legislation in the Senate Energy Committee to help drive a push toward ten million solar roofs in the US by 2020. This is an analogue to the successful California program this now slated to add net metering. That means that any electricity in excess of your needs is to be bought by the local utility.
The press release from Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, the author of the federal legislation, noted “The legislation would help finance the installation of up to 40,000 megawatts of new solar energy. In the process, the cost of generating solar power would fall and the United States would become the world’s leading market for electricity generated from the sun.”