Journal of Alta California

Power to the People

Precautionary electricity blackouts are now a standard of Golden State living. Designed to help prevent wildfires, the outages also prevent your freezer from freezing, your lights from lighting, and your air conditioner from cooling. In response, citizens across California are taking power-generation into their own hands—and those hands are full of options.

Residential solar power has grown more affordable in the past decade. As a result, California is home to one million solar roofs, and solar installers report

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