County and City moving forward with solar, a sunny choice

Pacifica Tribune letters to the Editor, 2/24/15, "Applaud Planner" by Dan B. Underhill.

80% effective on foggy days

"Editor:  I want to applaud the work of Assistant Planner Christian Murdock, and County Supervisors Carole Groom & Dave Pine for their work on the Community Choice Aggregation program and Mayor Karen Ervin, Council Member John Keener and any others for their support. It sounds like an excellent idea. 

I live on Paloma Avenue near Oceana High School on the southwestern slope of Milagra Ridge. The cuts that were made to accommodate that High School are pretty close to the optimal thirty degrees used for solar collection. A south facing gets the maximum sunlight over the year and a west facing gets the most valuable (peak hours) sunlight so this is some really prime real estate for solar collection that is already disturbed, from an environmental perspective, and it is not in use. 

The city already has a history of collaboration with Oceana High School and the Jefferson Union High School District on the Jean Brink Swimming Pool so cooperation on saving the planet might be a natural extension of that. Many home and/or business owners in town are in a position to catch some rays, with rooftop solar, for the cause as well. I read that solar is twenty percent less effective in fog or overcast which tells me that it is eighty percent effective even on foggy days. That sounds pretty good to me."

Note photograph from  Sherin and Lodgen LLP, Law, Real Estate blog.

Posted by Kathy Meeh