The Solar Community Program special purchase opportunity makes it more affordable for every Foster City home and business to go solar. SolarCity is only looking for 12-15 homes to go solar which represents about 50kW of installed solar power.
There are around 6,000 single family homes in our city. If 1% of these homes were to go solar, that would represent 60 homes. I think this is a very attainable goal. To put this into perspective, Mountain View has a 2% residential solar installation success rate after their popular solar community program completion last year.
Additionally, it is time for the City of Foster City to embrace solar power to set a positive example. The City would be making a great statement by simply having City Hall or the library go solar.
I also think that any new residential and business development should include some percentage of solar power. Now is the time for the new mixed-use residential/business re-development at the Lincoln Properties industrial park to go solar as well as our new downtown development, which include green building initiatives as part of its proposed plan.
If you think these goals make sense and are worth working towards, please let our city leaders know how you feel. You could also contact me and we could start a petition for the greening of city buildings and new developments. What do you say?
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