Three months ago, a frequent stumbling block to going solar was overcome for California homeowners living in common-interest developments (“CID”), such as condominiums and planned developments. On October 15, 2017, AB 634 (Eggman) amended the CA Solar Rights Act (“Act”) with respect to what restrictions governing documents and entities, such as homeowner associations (“Associations”), can impose on solar installation…

A new way of financing solar is taking off in the solar industry: pre-paid, Property Assessed Clean Energy (“PACE”) funded Power Purchase Agreements (“PPA”). At this point in solar’s mainstream transformation of our electric supply, most people are familiar with the acronym “PPA”. In case you missed it, however, PPAs are arrangements where a company…

Access to sunlight is often called the most difficult legal issue connected with solar energy use.  The ancient precedent of “ancient lights” holding that a person has a natural right to receive the light that passes through their window has be unanimously repudiated in the U.S.  No common law legal right to unobstructed light from…