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		<title>Solar@Work Offers Huge Discounts To Commercial Building Owners And Lease Holders</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new program in San Francisco, Solar@Work, offers discounts, and in some cases free installation, on solar arrays for commercial building owners and lease holders.  Almost any size business can qualify for the program that will lower energy costs for participants.  For businesses proactively addressing San Francisco&#8217;s required energy audits, this program requires a closer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=californiagreenbuildingblog.com&#038;blog=5187003&#038;post=1728&#038;subd=californiagreenbuildingblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FTW! Largest Municipal Solar Project In California Comes Online</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 07:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Sacks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week Mayor Gavin Newsom  and Recurrent Energy announced the completion of the Sunset Reservoir Solar Project.  We mentioned the story back when it started, and we&#8217;re glad to see it finished quickly! A year and a half is pretty good to install 24,000 solar panels (imagine 12 football fields) generating 5 megawatts of power (with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=californiagreenbuildingblog.com&#038;blog=5187003&#038;post=903&#038;subd=californiagreenbuildingblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>California Suspends Solar Incentive Program!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Sacks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The California Public Utilities Commission instituted a three month suspension of rebates under the California Solar Initiative.  This Solar Initiative is the vehicle whereby the state government provides tax-funded incentives to install solar arrays.   To read the ruling, click here. What is so unfortunate about this ruling is that the suspension is directed at non-profits and schools [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=californiagreenbuildingblog.com&#038;blog=5187003&#038;post=1331&#038;subd=californiagreenbuildingblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Earth Day! Sustainable Community Interview Special!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Sacks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Geof Syphers is the Chief Sustainability Officer at Codding Enterprises, developer of Sonoma Mountain Village, a One Planet Communities development in Rohnert Park, California that aims to be close to net zero&#8230;as a village! We&#8217;ve written about Sonoma Mountain Village (SOMO) before.  Click here to review that post. Now, as an Earth Day special, please [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=californiagreenbuildingblog.com&#038;blog=5187003&#038;post=1227&#038;subd=californiagreenbuildingblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AB 510 Signed By Governor Schwarzenegger! (Part 2)</title>
		<link>http://californiagreenbuildingblog.com/2010/03/04/ab-510-signed-by-governor-schwarzenegger-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Sacks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Governor Schwarzenegger signed AB 510 on February 26, 2010 (Click here for full text of AB 510) (Click here for press release and video). We covered the basic elements of the new law in Part 1 of our coverage last week (click here for that post). Now, we turn to some other elements of the law&#8230; some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=californiagreenbuildingblog.com&#038;blog=5187003&#038;post=1111&#038;subd=californiagreenbuildingblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AB 510 On The Way To Governor&#8217;s Signature! (Part 1)</title>
		<link>http://californiagreenbuildingblog.com/2010/02/23/ab-510-on-the-way-to-governors-signature-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Sacks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AB 510 (full text here) passed both the Senate and Assembly, and Governor Schwarzenegger says he will sign the bill into law.  The bill raises the cap set on the number of homes and businesses that can take advantage of net energy metering.  Yes, there&#8217;s a cap!  The utilities don&#8217;t want &#8220;customer-generators&#8221; producing power without [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=californiagreenbuildingblog.com&#038;blog=5187003&#038;post=1058&#038;subd=californiagreenbuildingblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Congratulations AB 920!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AB 920 was signed into law last week.  The law requires that utilities pay for energy they receive through net metering.  We have followed AB 920 (previously AB 1920) here at the CGBB since we posted our first articles nearly a year ago.  AB 920 is the common-sense approach to net metering.   Net metering is an arrangement whereby [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=californiagreenbuildingblog.com&#038;blog=5187003&#038;post=932&#038;subd=californiagreenbuildingblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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