The law requires all new homes to have solar panels.
California solar panels new homes.
The california energy commission estimated its rooftop solar requirement would save the average single family home about 35 per month with mortgage payments rising but energy bills falling even.
Roughly 110 000 new housing units are built every year in california.
Overall 6 6 of california homes now have solar panels.
This progressive ruling is the first of its kind in the us and is leading the nation to a cleaner energy future.
California lawmakers on wednesday officially approved a measure that mandates all homes built in the golden state in 2020 and beyond be solar powered.
Beginning in 2020 newly constructed homes must have solar panels which could be costly for.
A new california law set to take effect in 2020 is expected to make the price of new homes in the state thousands of dollars more expensive.
The new standards were approved earlier this.