SF Solar is Signed, Sealed, (Soon to Be) Delivered
Next to a 34-kilowatt photovoltaic array San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom signed into law the country’s largest municipal solar incentive program this afternoon. Starting July 1, San Franciscan residents can get up to $6,000 in rebates from the city to install a rooftop solar system. The city has revamped its online solar rooftop map so residents can estimate how much roof they have and how much it will cost them to go solar after all the federal, state and new municipal rebates.
The next step is to make the out-of-pocket cost zero, Newsom said today. He wants to create a municipal loan program to erase the upfront cost, allowing anyone to put solar up. Its another ambitious plan and it took six arduous months for the rebate program become law so don’t expect zero-down solar from the city any time soon.
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[...] due to the rising cost of natural gas. In addition, the city of San Francisco just signed into law the country’s largest municipal solar incentive program which is set to dole out $3 million for residential solar, up to $6,000 per [...]
[...] Program after more than five months of politicking. Soon after, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom signed the program into law. The program has been greenlighted for 10 years and has an annual budget of $3 million [...]