Not sure if you noticed, but California’s new home solar mandate is almost here (we’ve only written like 20,000 words on it so far, with more coming this week), but some homebuilders and utilities are still not that thrilled about it. Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) being the most notable afterRead More

The California Solar & Storage Association (CALSSA) recently updated its Code of Ethics with a detailed section on new consumer protection rules. Compliance with these new rules is now required for all CALSSA members to remain in good standing in the association and extend, in certain circumstances, to non-member businessRead More

California has a vision for a widespread residential solar + storage market that would ultimately supplant PV-only systems in both effectiveness and return on investment and is currently assembling all of the pieces to bring it to life. Those pieces include: Revisions to Title 24 of the California Code ofRead More

Intersolar or no Intersolar, the best solar party of the year will rock on. The California Solar & Storage Association proudly announces the 9th Annual Solar Battle of the Bands will be held on July 9, 2019 at the Mezzanine in San Francisco. Solar Battle of the Bands is aRead More

The California Solar and Storage Association (CALSSA) released a white paper detailing barriers that prevent customer-sited solar and storage from maximizing its potential as a grid resource. The white paper describes opportunities for distributed resources to provide value to the electric grid and the environment, along with program improvements thatRead More

Installment 1: New Builds, New You Enter the Twilight Zone with me. Tomorrow, we wake up in a reality where solar energy is a standard component of all new homes built across the United States. Between that day and 2026, more solar energy capacity would be installed on just newRead More

California’s largest utility, PG&E, filed for bankruptcy last week after years of liability for its role in California’s wildfires piled to an estimated $30 billion in damage. How will this affect the momentum of distributed generation projects in solar’s leading state? We reached out to the California Solar & StorageRead More