Berkeley's about to offer a pilot program that provides government financing when houses retro-fit their power with solar panels. Ordinarily this costs about $22k, and instead homeowners could pay $180/mo to the gov't for 20 years (ideally to be offset by savings).
NYTimes and the SFChronicle cover all of this quite positively.
My green NYC building has solar panels. Typical nyc power bills are around $150-300/mo in 2 bedrooms and I pay $50-75/mo.
So it looks like the Berkeley deal could making going solar ~ free~ , which is pretty hot!
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