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San Francisco: Solar City

posted by The Cutline Team on December 3, 2008

San Francisco continues to lead a push towards green technology, offering high tech tools and incentives to help residents make the change to solar power. Check out this impressive Google Maps mashup, which not only indexes individual properties currently (pardon the pun) using solar power, but also determines annual cash saved on electricity as well as pounds of carbon spared per year. Simply type your address into the "What Can Solar Do For You?" bar, and the map will zoom in on your place, with stats about available square footage for solar panels and the aforementioned cost savings estimates. What's more, the city's Public Utilities Commission has outlined even more savings from the state sponsored California Solar Initiative and federal tax credits, which they say could "pay half the cost or more of a solar power system installed in San Francisco." By raising property values and offering residents protection from utility rate increases, it may not be long before San Francisco is known as the Solar City. Now, if we could only do something about the fog in the Sunset...

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