State officials have declined to approve a program that would allow new homes to be built in Sacramento without rooftop solar panels — handing at least a temporary victory to clean energy advocates.
State officials will vote this week on a proposal to allow “community solar” farms instead of rooftop panels.
Clean energy advocates figured the exception would be utilized by multifamily developments without sufficient space for rooftop solar, and that community solar projects would be small facilities designed to serve nearby areas. But the Energy Commission chose not to define “community.”SMUD’s community solar proposal included 100 megawatts from small existing solar farms within its service territory, which spans most of Sacramento County and parts of Placer and Yolo counties.
SMUD’s program “exploits what was supposed to be an exception,” said Todd Farhat, utility relations manager for SunStreet, Lennar’s solar installation subsidiary. The Sacramento proposal, he added, “slows down the innovation necessary to meet California’s long-term climate and energy goals.”SMUD officials countered that their program had been thoroughly vetted by Energy Commission staff, who found that it complied with the agency’s home solar mandate.
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