CA Assembly Rejects Million Solar Roofs Bill
http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story;jsessionid=aicQuCqAchq4?id=36386"Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration, which supported the bill throughout, lost the political struggle with California assembly and in particular Speaker Fabio Nunez, D-Los Angeles. It now appears likely that the Governor will ask the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to implement a solar program using SB 1 as a guideline.
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SB 1's cost savings incentives for solar energy would have helped Californians install 3,000 MW of solar power capacity panels on homes and businesses over the next ten years, however, the amendments for prevailing wages and licensing splintered the bill's support."
In the comments following this story, one reads typical union-bashing blame directed at the IBEW.
I would like to know more about the amendments, and what were the concerns of the IBEW. What of the "prevailing wage" issue? Did this bill as written attempt to allow cheap/undocumented labor in the process of did it exclude union participation in some way? What of the one writer's lament that IBEW members are somehow untrained for PV pre-inverter hook-up techniques?
Help me to see the light. (Sorry.)
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