California’s Solar Rooftop Experience: An Update

dc.creator	Griffin, James M.
dc.date.accessioned	2020-01-17T17:43:32Z
dc.date.available	2020-01-17T17:43:32Z
dc.date.issued	2020-01
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/187061
dc.description	An earlier Takeaway focusing on 2010 showed the necessity of state and federal subsidies to support the adoption of residential solar rooftops. Back then, the environmental bang for the buck was poor. But now, steeply falling solar costs have changed the picture. As before, this update looks not only at the costs and benefits to the solar adopters, but also to the investor-owned electric utilities, to the government, and to the environment. Cost reductions in solar panels now make subsidies unnecessary, but electric utilities continue to face a difficult situation. The author argues that wo big policy changes are needed.	en
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics & Public Policy
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Volume 11;Issue 1
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
dc.subject	rooftop solar	en
dc.subject	California electricity regulation	en
dc.title	California’s Solar Rooftop Experience: An Update	en
dc.type	Article	en
dc.contributor.sponsor	Bush School of Government and Public Service
local.department	Other	en

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