San Luis Obispo city council has decided that by 2020 more than half of all new homes built in this Calfornia community must get some of their electricity through solar power. The previous mandate was to have 5 per cent of new builds be solar-PV-enabled by 2008.
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March 28th, 2006 at 7:53 pm
How did you come to the conclusion that ALL new houses will require some solar by 2020? Even the headline of the article says “half”, the text of the article says “more than half”, and the calculations based on the figures in the article yield a result of 53% of all houses by 2020.
March 28th, 2006 at 8:15 pm
That’s what happens when you try to sneak in a quick blog post during work hours.
Thanks for pointing out the mistake. Correction made.