Urban power like rooftop solar dominates Brown's energy confab

It may not be quite the renewable energy powerhouse that Germany and China are, but California will be well on its way once it speeds up installations of smaller, urban projects, Gov. Jerry Brown said Monday.

At a UCLA conference called to help figure how to achieve Brown’s goal of 12 gigawatts of localized clean power production, he and executives from SolarCity, Google and NRG talked about the state’s energy future.

“At the same time we try to balance our budgets, we have to keep investing,” he said. “We have to keep California up among the innovative places of the world.” http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2011/07/rooftop-solar-and-distributed-generation-dominate-browns-ucla-energy-confab.html

Article courtesy of The Los Angeles Times-Greenspace-posted by Tiffany Hsu