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California passed a bill to make plug-in solar easier and cheaper to install
Lawmakers in California passed the Plug and Play Solar Act to legalize balcony solar, which is already abundant in places like Germany. Gov. Gavin Newsom still needs to sign the bill, which had bipartisan support.
Balcony solar, which is sold by a few businesses in the U.S., makes home solar more accessible for renters and homeowners who are unable or can’t afford rooftop panels.
Once it becomes law, it would allow households to install systems up to 1,200 watts without utility approval or interconnection typically required of rooftop systems. A 400-wat system could cover 14% of an apartment’s energy use.
Why is this good news? While so many aspects of the large clean energy transition are out of an individual’s hands, balcony solar gives some (literal) power back to consumers to decide where at least a portion of their electricity comes from. We should be making it easier and more affordable for people to adopt this if they want to.
A California mom sends $10K a week to a Texas immigration detention center so parents can feed their children
After hearing about the conditions detainees were experiencing in a Texas detention center, including parents finding cockroaches in their food and children vomiting after drinking the tap water, Casey Revkin wanted to do her part to help.
The self-described “California mom” had already been helping immigrant children for around a decade. Now, she sends more than $10,000 a week through her nonprofit to families being detained so they can buy food and other necessities at the commissary.
She’s helped families purchase things like candy bars for a birthday and nasal sprays to help children adjust to the dusty landscape.
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