[POWER GREEN]
California Reverses its Course on
Solar Policy F
or years, California has been leading the united states in progressing environmental policies. More than two decades before the united states could pass the Clean Air Act, California was the first state in the country to pass an air pollution legislation in 1947. Spurred by the country’s strongest and most innovative building code, new buildings in that state now use 75 percent 10
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less energy, than the buildings before the code. Further, California is the only state with its own greenhouse gas emission cap and trade program, which has earned it about $2.5 billion in revenue. This is from the emission permits. Led by the state’s Silicon Valley, the state has been on the forefront leading the nation in generating inventions for electric and self-driving cars and also a smart electricity grid which is helping in the creation of
THE POWER IS NOW MAGAZINE | APRIL 2020
