Los Angeles Solar Measure Falls Behind in Votes
March 4, 2009 by editor
Filed under Community, Solar News
A controversial ballot measure in Los Angeles to increase solar power installations in the city has fallen behind, and will be rejected unless thousands of late or provisional ballots swing the outcome.
At the moment, it appears that Los Angeles voters lacked confidence in the city utility's ability to manage massive solar installations.
Measure B, as the issue was known, would require the local utility - the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power - to ramp up solar power production dramatically by installing 400 megawatts’ worth of panels by 2014. (That is a substantial amount - nearly one-third of the size of a record solar deal recently signed by Southern California Edison.)
The controversy centered on how - not whether - Los Angeles should move forward with solar power.
