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Find below a link to the State of California’s official web site on “going solar”. I’ve taken a blurb from the sites mission statement.

http://www.gosolarcalifornia.ca.gov/

“Renewable energy is a natural choice. Harnessing the earth’s own inexhaustible energy - whether from the sun, wind, fuel cells, or other renewable sources - can reduce dependence on fossil fuels and provide clean, affordable electricity.

California has made a bold decision… to place 3,000 megawatts of new, solar produced electricity systems on rooftops by 2017. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s goal is to put solar systems on a million California roofs.

But that’s only part of the big picture. About 10.2 percent of the electricity we use comes from renewable sources - biomass, geothermal, small hydroelectric, solar, and wind (see graph below).

In 2002, California established its Renewable Portfolio Standard Program, with the goal of increasing the percentage of renewable energy in the state’s electricity mix to 20 percent by 2017. The California Energy Commission has recommended accelerating the goal of 20 percent by 2010 and increasing the target of 33 percent electricity from renewable energy by 2020. The state’s Energy Action Plan supported this goal. The Governor’s goal for a million solar roofs is an important part of that “bigger picture.”