LA Weekly

Everyone knows this already, but the California Public Utilities Commission voted 3-1 yesterday to dedicate $3.2 billion to the now-proverbial Million Solar Roofs. Commissioner Geoffrey Brown dissented, saying "We have put our enthusiasm before our prudence."

Paul Rogers' story in the San Jose Mercury News addresses some nagging questions about the initiaive, such as consumer credits for green power and electrical-worker wage issues:

Democratic leaders in Sacramento said Thursday that they .. . intend to require that industrial, commercial and government solar jobs pay high ``prevailing wages'' -- generally comparable to union wages. That position doomed the solar effort last year because environmentalists and Schwarzenegger said it would raise costs too much.

But I continue to be nagged. More to come.

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