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California is backpedaling to regulate the way solar is sold to potential buyers. Starting October 1, contractors are required to include the Solar Protection Guide to their contracts. It’s a 23-page guide about how to stay protected while purchasing solar panels. The first four pages must be signed at the bottom by the buyer, ensuring they read it. “It’s a budding and emerging industry and there’s a lot of areas there where people that aren’t as ethical can actually take advantage of people,” Nate Otto, president of Hot Purple Energy, said. Kathy Owens, a solar consumer in the Coachella Valley, lost thousands of dollars to Southern California Home Improvement Center, a company that is now out of business. She signed a solar contract with a salesman at her doorstep from out of town. “I thought I had done research,” she said. In March, Hot Purple Energy helped Kathy understand what went wrong. “This deal, they knew from the beginning, that it was not going to pencil out and it was going to be a negative deal and they let her go anyhow so that they could make a commission and a profit,” Otto said. With the new guide, California is taking steps to make sure consumers are protected during a solar sale. “People have to read it, they have to sign off on it, or they don’t get connected to the grid,” Otto said. Topics within the guide include how to: Take your time, watch for false claims, make sure they have a valid contractor’s license, what’s false and true, know your rights, etc. “The biggest one here is the 3-day cancellation period after signing a contract,” Otto said as he pointed at the ‘Know Your Rights’ page. All of it essentially means, don’t be “pushed” into solar, Otto said. “I don’t want you to get wrong about solar,” he said. “Solar is great for about 80 percent of the people but there’s 20 percent that the circumstances aren’t right for.”

operations at its Eland 1 solar-plus-storage facility in Kern County, California, featuring a 384-MWdc solar plant and a 150-MW/600-MWh battery energy storage

roughly $320 million, contributing to MCE's over $1.6 billion purchased new California eco-friendly projects. " MCE is grateful to companion with Longroad Energy as

all while creating a more sustainable planet." With energy rates for California dairy farms having raised by as long as 54% over the last 10 years, a raising

to water infrastructure. Financing for the project is offered by the State of California and also administered by the Dept. of Water Resources. The project will

has announced their first solar project in California. The 44MW Camino Solar is to be constructed by Cupertino Electric in Kern County, next to Avangrid’s

has been some talk of a slowdown in California’s large-scale solar market, following over-procurement by the state’s large investor-owned utilities to

a proposed 117-MW solar project located on public lands in Riverside County, California. Feedback will be accepted until November 4, with in-person and virtual public

68 megawatt-hours (MWh) in storage space projects from the December 2020 California Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP) Non-Residential Equity lottery. This

has 99.8% of the capability worth of a theoretical "best generator" in California's CAISO grid region. That's the finding of a joint research study appointed

on 17 October, 2022. DC Mount Signal 2 is a solar farm based in southern California. Its whole output is sold to Southern California Edison under a 20-year

Hydrostor's 500-MW/4,000-MWh compressed air energy storage (A-CAES) project in California. This significant funding aims to enhance the state's energy storage

proposed rules, NEM 3.0, would certainly impose "inequitable fixed fees" on California houses as well as "make roof solar panels expensive for just about all

Energy has actually introduced that based on authorization by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), it will certainly broaden the dimension of the

storage space system-- reinforcing the resiliency and also integrity of the California energy grid. The project will certainly consist of over 415,000 First Solar