Source: Environment California
We have the power to harness abundant renewable energy from the sun by installing solar panels on California’s rooftops. While we lead the nation in rooftop solar capacity, we’ve only taken advantage of 10% of the state’s rooftop solar potential so far. Rooftop solar energy is essential to helping California meet its goal of generating 100% clean electricity by 2045.
Despite steady rooftop solar growth, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) slashed the state’s successful rooftop solar incentive program, Net Energy Metering (NEM), which caused the bottom to fall out of the rooftop solar market starting in 2023. New rooftop solar installations plummeted by 80% and the solar industry experienced significant job losses.