Let's Power The Hill, Someday...

If we ever wanted to take our lofty goals of solar power generation and monetize it someday - by selling it to Southern Claifornia Edison, for example - we'll need to hope that current regulatory state policy is rewritten. Today, there does not exist a market for distributed solar power generation (the kind we'll do on our homes). However, the California Solar Energy Industries Assocoiation is working to change this law and open the market to households and businesses. The link below illustrates the various paths to market for solar electric generation, and does an excellent job of highlighting the exclusion of distributed solar power from being sold at wholesale prices and flowing to the grid.

http://calseia.org/solar-energy-markets.html

Just a thought, but...

Why restrict homes and buildings from providing clean electrons to meet the increasing energy demand of California? Moreover, why restrict the Horowitz's from helping power the many homes on "The Hill" AKA The Town of Idyllwild? Theoretically, if the barriers to distributed solar generation were removed, we could plant a solar farm on a few acres of our property that may generate as much as 1MW of electricity from the sun. That's roughly the amount needed to power 750 homes. Without knowing exact numbers, that must come close to the number of homes in Idyllwild, no?