re: California officially becomes first in nation mandating solar power for new homes

Now that I think about it I'm pretty sure I had to call maintenance for that and they would only adjust it so much (military housing).

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What is the energy footprint on those factories that produce solar panels and cells? And what happens to the old, broken solar panels and cells?

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Depending on what you want to classify as energy input required to produce, and dispose of the cells, you can end up with a net negative energy gain for solar cell pretty fast. For example would the energy required to build the manufacturing facility be considered energy used to manufacture the cells, what about fuel used for workers to commute to the plant, etc?

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Oh, I agree. That's why I always laugh when they talk about separating from the US. They wouldn't last a week without major utilities coming in from out of state

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Why TX is the only state that can seriously "threat" to secede. Not saying it will or want to get into the politics of it, but TX does have it's own grid. Which is huge "if" it were to secede.

The whole california into 5 different states push sounds good, but will be horrible for the Right, with things like adding 8 more california senators.

California is already the land of haves and have nots.

Wait until the poor people gain control of the political arm

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California officially became the first state in the nation on Wednesday, Dec. 5 to require homes built in 2020 and later be solar powered.

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but dont have to be a citizen to vote...

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I know this would be way down the road, once everyone has solar, who is using all of the excess electricity that’s being fed back to the grid? I would assume that net metering would go away at some point?

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Good question. The energy your PV creates during the day does get used by your neighbors without PV, so that’s why the utility pays a PV owner for that power. In Hawaii, our Net Metering got reduced by 2/3 because of your question. We hit 20% which is a crazy high number of people with PV so there was too much being fed back to the grid during the day. Now that the rate paid to the PV owner has been cut so much many people are choosing batteries so we’re seeing lots of storage here. Hawaii is leading what the rest of the US will do. So yes, Hawaii will cut Net Metering entirely in about a year or so. You will only be able to live feed the house directly with PV and store it at your battery.

Our rates here are $.30+ per kWh triple what most in the US. are paying so the payback is quick here. California too. It will make more and more sense for the rest of the US as well when the prices come down for storage. Or states that still have NM.