Now that California has reached 1 million solar roofs, some activists are looking at battery storage as the next frontier for lawmakers.
Dan Jacobson, director of Environment California, thinks the state should aim to install 1 million batteries by 2025. Those systems could store solar power for use in the evening — and help homes keep the lights on when utility companies intentionally shut off power to reduce the risk of wildfire ignitions.
— The Los Angeles Times
Writing in The Los Angeles Times, Sammy Roth reports on California's 1 million solar rooftop achievement, the culmination of a solar incentive plan initiated by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2006. According to the report, there are now more than 1,046,792 solar installations in the state, many on private households and businesses.
Now that the state's solar capacity is increasing at a healthy clip, clean energy advocates are beginning a similar push to increase solar battery capacity, an effort that could transform the nature of the state's power grid as the need for collective infrastructure begins to be replaced by distributed power generation approaches.
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