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The Environmental Case for Rooftop Solar Energy: Protecting California’s Climate and Land

The Environmental Case for Rooftop Solar Energy: Protecting California’s Climate and Land

Full Title: The Environmental Case for Rooftop Solar Energy: Protecting California's Climate and Land
Author(s): Bryn Huxley-Reicher, Laura Deehan
Publisher(s): Environment California Research & Policy Center, Frontier Group
Publication Date: July 8, 2021
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Description (excerpt):

California has long been a global leader in environmental protection. California’s pioneering actions to reduce air pollution, safeguard natural areas, and protect vulnerable species have set a high standard for the United States and beyond.

Today, California faces its biggest environmental challenge: climate change. Over the next several decades, California will need to repower its economy with clean, renewable energy – and do so with as little impact as possible on wildlife and wild places.

Rooftop solar power is a key tool in the fight against climate change. Solar energy on homes, schools, farms and other buildings can be deployed at the speed and scale required to meet the climate crisis, and it can do so while contributing to a resilient, ecologically vibrant future for California.

Installing more rooftop solar can increase renewable electricity generation while protecting the state’s open spaces and helping to make communities more resilient to global warming-related disruptions to the power grid. To accelerate the transition to a 100% clean energy system while protecting our environment, California should adopt policies that continue the growth of solar power on homes, businesses, schools, farms and other buildings.

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