How California Is Casting A Cloud Over Residential Solar Nationwide
Led by California, rooftop solar installations are poised to fall 12% nationally this year. It’s the first decline since 2017.
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Led by California, rooftop solar installations are poised to fall 12% nationally this year. It’s the first decline since 2017.
Led by California, rooftop solar installations are poised to fall 12 percent nationally this year. It’s the first decline since 2017.
California has long championed renewable energy, but a change in the state’s policies last year has led to a sharp decline in the installation of residential rooftop solar in the state. Thousands of companies — including installers, manufacturers and distributors — are reeling from the new policy, which took effect in April and greatly reduced incentives that had encouraged homeowners to install solar panels. Since the change, sales of rooftop solar installations in California dropped as much as
Some businesses might even choose to stop operations in California after the new solar energy policy.
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