As SunPower prepares to install its 10,000th residential system, the company says that it anticipates that solar will be on 20 percent of all new homes built in California this year. That’s based on recent trends, like the doubling of solar on new homes between 2011 and 2012, renewed efforts through the California Solar Initiative (CSI) under the New Solar Homes Partnership, and at least two municipalities in California that have revised their building codes to require solar on all new homes.
CSI data shows that 4,000 new homes were built with solar in California last year. SunPower observes that that’s 10 times the number built in 2006, when the housing construction market was booming. But back then solar was much more expensive, there were few if any residential solar leasing programs, and the CSI and its parent program the Go Solar California campaign were being implemented.
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CSI data shows that 4,000 new homes were built with solar in California last year. SunPower observes that that’s 10 times the number built in 2006, when the housing construction market was booming. But back then solar was much more expensive, there were few if any residential solar leasing programs, and the CSI and its parent program the Go Solar California campaign were being implemented.
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