San Francisco OKs California’s Largest Municipal Solar Project

San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors Tuesday passed a proposal giving clearance to Recurrent Energy to Construct a 5 megawatt solar photovoltaic plant and sell energy to the city at a cost of about $2 million annually. The new plant, to be built in the city’s Sunset District, will be the largest municipal solar power project in California.

“Yesterday, San Francisco took another major step towards achieving our commitments to reduce greenhouse gases and grow our green economy,” said Mayor Newsom in a statement.

Newsom, who sponsored the legislation, added that the project would more than triple San Francisco’s solar energy production and “help lead the state towards a future of clean, renewable energy.”

http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/05/07/san-francisco-oks-californias-largest-municipal-solar-project/

you had a couple of the more "progressive" members of the board of supervisors try to kill this

I'm skeptical that a solar project would work well on the coast in California. Fog, "June gloom", you know. Wouldn't it be better to put the solar panels east of the mountains and run a wire?

That side of town is usually much sunnier than the Sunset. Perhaps put it near the new baseball stadium.

actually, this area isn't completely fogbound all the time contrary to popular belief

no one expects that solar to be the only source of energy in this area

I doubt there are too many places outside the desert that could survive only on solar