rooftop solar

“There's lots of sound research showing that when one person does something, like buy an electric vehicle or install rooftop solar, it drastically increases the chances that their friends and neighbors do the same thing.”

“Hawaii has a lot of rooftop solar today, and in fact, so much rooftop solar that they, the state put in place these policies to kind of discourage anyone from exporting more to the grid.”

“Sure, so actually a recent report just came out and found that there are over 42,000 rooftop solar systems have been installed across the island as of January, twenty-twenty-two, and so the number is by now probably thousands higher, and that's just for system…”

“I think New York City is a good counter example to the sort of vision of the clean energy future that's all small scale, and every, every home just puts it on the roof because, you know, you have too many people living in very tall buildings that don't have th…”

“We've got a little over 70,000 rooftops in LA that are currently solar powered.”

“And the study finds that, no, actually, New England's grid is, at least in the next couple of years, is actually in really good shape. And a big reason that it's in really good shape is that New Englanders have put so much solar on their rooftops that it is ef…”

“For years, rooftop solar was overlooked as a reliability solution in New England. But in a very sudden reversal, the grid operator says it's critical to keeping the lights on across the region.”

“And then suddenly you have this finding that rooftop solar can shave enough demand to shut down the region's third biggest fossil power plant.”

“There's more solar capacity on rooftops in Hawaii than in utility scale projects.”

“Nearly 1.8 million rooftop solar installations, a 10 X increase in batteries to more than five gigawatts, and one in four cars sold in the state are now electric.”

“So I think it's a big mistake to disincentivize rooftop solar at this time and believe that we can both do that and do things like central procurement, make sure we actually build offshore wind, which is, as you know, is going to take seven to 10 years anyway…”