On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about California's plans to require utility companies to get 33 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by the end of 2020. With California leading solar installations in the US, how promising is the future of solar energy? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. How many people are employed in the solar industry? What's next for this industry? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.
Guests:
Michael Clifton, Operation Engineering Manager at Sprig Electric
David Baker, San Francisco Chronicle Energy Reporter
Bernadette Del Chiaro, Clean Energy Program Director at Environment California
Click to Listen: What's in store for the future of solar energy?
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
What's in store for the future of solar energy?
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Your Call 033108 Solar Rising
Why is solar rising over the Bay Area? On the next Your Call, we're rebroadcasting a conversation we recently had with a panel of stakeholders in the solar boom. Cities are making it easier to install panels on residences and offices, local companies are spearheading research into new technologies, and local contractors and non-profits are making it practical. What policies are happening in your neighborhood to make solar's present as bright as its future? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy.
Guests:
David Hochschild in San Francisco
Vice-President of Solaria, a start-up; he is a commissioner on the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and a founder of the non-profit Vote Solar. He joins us in our San Francisco studio.
Johanna Partin in San Francisco
Renewable Energy Program Manager in the San Francisco Department of the Environment. She joins us from San Francisco.
Cisco Devries in Berkeley
Spokesperson for the City of Berkeley.
Click to Listen: Solar Rising (rebroadcast)
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Your Call 030508 Solar Rising
Why is Solar rising over the Bay Area? On the next Your Call we talk to different stakeholders in the solar boom taking place around the Bay Area. Cities are making it easier to install panels on residences and offices, even subsidizing it; local companies are spearheading research into new technologies and local contractors and non-profits are making it practical. What policies are happening in your town to make solar's present as bright as its future? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.
Guests:
David Hochschild in San Francisco
Vice-President of Solaria, a start-up; he is a commissioner on the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and a founder of the non-profit Vote Solar. He joins us in our San Francisco studio.
Johanna Partin in San Francisco
Renewable Energy Program Manager in the San Francisco Department of the Environment. She joins us from San Francisco.
Cisco Devries in Berkeley
Spokesperson for the City of Berkeley.
Click to Listen: Solar Rising