California's Governor Jerry Brown Pushes For More Solar

Jerry Brown is on his third term as governor of California. Maintaining his avid environmentalist personality he first openly expressed while in office from 1975 to 1983, Governor Brown says he has big plans for solar and renewable energy for the state of California. This couldn't be better news for solar contracting companies like the So-Cal based Solaire Energy Systems.

The Democratic governor was once nicknamed "Governor Moonbeam" by a writer of the Chicago Sun-Times after reading an interview with Brown's then-girlfriend Linda Ronstadt. The name stuck because of his far out ideas for the times, such as purchasing a satellite for California, using less energy day to day and he was the first to sponsor a tax incentive for rooftop solar panel arrays. He's back in Sacramento and he's picking up where he left off.

Governor Brown has plans to raise California's use of solar energy san diego, windmill farms and battery power from the current goal of 33% to 40% by 2020. In 2010, the state was only at 18%, but Brown still sees the 40% goal as a possibility. To show his support for solar, Brown attended the groundbreaking for the Blythe Solar Project in Riverside County, CA. The Blythe Project will be the world's largest solar plant and will produce enough energy to power 300,000 homes. After the groundbreaking last month, Governor Brown signed off on a tax incentive bill that will benefit solar power projects. Assembly Bill 15 makes property-tax reassessment exemptions available for solar installations, which encourages solar companies to grow and expand their businesses.