{"id":2118,"date":"2018-12-07T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T21:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/?p=2118"},"modified":"2018-12-07T21:30:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T21:30:19","slug":"california-officially-becomes-first-state-to-require-solar-panels-on-new-homes-los-angeles-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/07\/california-officially-becomes-first-state-to-require-solar-panels-on-new-homes-los-angeles-times\/","title":{"rendered":"California officially becomes first state to require solar panels on new homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>California became the first state in the nation to require homes built in 2020 and later be solar-powered, following a vote by the Building Standards Commission. The unanimous action finalizes a previous vote by the Energy Commission and fulfills a decade-old goal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-solar-power-new-homes-20181206-story.html\">California officially becomes first state to require solar panels on new homes &#8211; Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>When France <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/mar\/20\/france-decrees-new-rooftops-must-be-covered-in-plants-or-solar-panels\">did this<\/a> they gave you a choice between PV or a green roof. It seems to me that in urban areas, the effects of the green roof &#8212; cleaning the air, moderating temperature, absorbing rain\/reducing runoff, providing an amenity for people and habitat for birds &#8212; may outweigh the relatively small amount of power produced by rooftop PV. Then put utility-scale solar in the desert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California became the first state in the nation to require homes built in 2020 and later be solar-powered, following a vote by the Building Standards Commission. The unanimous action finalizes a previous vote by the Energy Commission and fulfills a decade-old goal. Source: California officially becomes first state to require solar panels on new homes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2118"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2121,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions\/2121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}