California schools can’t keep pace with utility bills. Solar energy offers a needed lifeline

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New regulations made solar installations financially unviable for California school districts where utility bills remain a top budget expense.

Get the news that matters to all Californians. Start every week informed.A MUSE School student walks near one of five solar Sun Flowers designed by filmmaker James Cameron for the school in Malibu, in 2015. Photo by Jonathan Alcorn, ReutersNew regulations made new solar installations financially unviable for school districts where utility bills remain a top budget expense. A legislative fix, Senate Bill 1374, could help restore the incentives.

School districts such as Oakland and Clovis Unified, for example, are separated by more than a hundred miles, yet the upward trajectory of utility costs is maddeningly similar. For Oakland, these energy expenses spiked $1.3 million just this year. Clovis has endured $2.2 million in electricity hikes since 2019 – increases that would have ballooned to more than $5 million without the district’s existing solar panels.the second-largest line item for schools after staff salaries.

 

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