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Solar Power Cost, Benefit, and Deployment Capacity Shifts

Solar Power Cost, Benefit, and Deployment Capacity Shifts

A New Opportunity for California Cities and Counties. Property owners in most of northern California now recapture their on-site solar investments in as little as 5-6 years and continue to save money for another 20 years. Their communities benefit as well to the extent local governments act to capture reliability, resilience and equity benefits a thriving local solar industry makes possible. California counties and cities with mature local solar deployment capacity are seeing sustained double digit annual on-site solar expansion. It is as if an exceptionally talented and productive player just began playing for the local team – a player with the ability to lower energy costs, increase energy resilience and enable more equitable access to locally produced zero carbon electricity.