San Francisco approves giant solar incentive program 5

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   davb Posted 2:49 pm
   11 Jun 2008

   San Fransisco FogI worked in that beautiful city in 1999 and 2000. The  fog will shut down the panels in July, but believe me, the bay area has plenty of solar power potential. Now I live in Oregon and we have a bigger problem during the winter time; it's cloudy or rainy and the sun is pretty low on the horizon. But we do have hydroelectric as everyone knows. My friend uses a car alternator to charge batteries from a creek, and does very well.

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   amazingdrx Posted 3:07 pm
   11 Jun 2008

   CurrentLots of current power underwater in the bay!  And geo heat exchange cooling too.

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   HannahatSungevity Posted 4:37 am
   12 Jun 2008

   The sun is shining in SFAs much as we perceive San Francisco to be a foggy city, according to the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratories (PV Watts), San Francisco has slightly lower annual sun hours than 'sunny cities' like LA and Sacramento. Not too shabby, or too shady...we'll be posting about this on the Sungevity blog shortly: http://blog.sungevity.com/. As an employee at a solar installation company, I like to put this issue in perspective: Germany has the largest solar market in the world and they have the solar potential of Nome, Alaska. San Francisco is a great place for solar!

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   abby9280 Posted 12:12 pm
   15 Jun 2008

   Good newsGood to see such a major city undertaking this kind of initiative! Not only will this help move the process along as we eagerly wait for solar power to hit economies of scale, but its media prominence will be invaluable in making the goal of harnessing solar energy an acceptable, mainstream effort.
   Other recent events are also helping to achieve the same ends, including this optimistic piece of news: http://www.biobasednews.com/node/16166
   
   ("BioSolar Highlighted Nationally in Media Reports Focused on Growth of Solar Market and Company's Competitive Advantage")

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   seattlegrister Posted 11:24 am
   16 Jun 2008

   solar power - derailed in Oregon by Utilityhopefully they get the buy-in/OK from the Utility.  In Oregon, Pacific Corp just blocked 13 MW of solar deals for 2008 - i guess they're afraid of the competition.
   here's the story - no other people have picked this up yet.  i guess it's not that important.
   http://wweek.com/editorial/3431/11084/

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