San Francisco approved their municipal solar program
The Solar Energy Incentive Program is finally going to happen in San Francisco. They have been given the green light for 10 years, with an annual budget of $3 million dollars. The money will be used at tax incentives for companies and families that install solar panels. The SEIP could be active as soon as July 1st of this year.
Local solar installers also approved of this plan because it will continue to create jobs in the coming years, as well as cleaning up a smoggy city. The rebates and tax incentives will also be applicable to these local installers, allowing them to cut the cost of solar installation by 20%.
Families and individuals are granted between $3,000 and $6,000, and businesses will receive a $10,000 rebate. The city is estimating in the first 10 years, roughly 15,000 rooftops will be covered in solar panels. Currently there are less than 700 rooftops in San Francisco with solar panels.
San Francisco also passed a separate measure granting 1.5 million to helping low-income and non-profit corporations to get their rooftops filled with solar panels as well. This is fantastic news, but it's no surprise a California city is out in front on this initiative. It's not enough anymore to "let the hippies try it first" and if it works, let it spread to the rest of the nation. More local governments need to start providing incentives to people for using power. I know lots of people who aren't against the idea, it's just too expensive up-front to make that leap. We just need more progressive local (and federal) governments like San Francisco's.
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