{"id":4406,"date":"2014-02-04T17:46:28","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T21:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenpowerlabs.com\/uncategorized-cn\/building-a-secure-energy-future-demands-bold-innovation\/"},"modified":"2014-02-04T17:46:28","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T21:46:28","slug":"building-a-secure-energy-future-demands-bold-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenpowerlabs.com\/cn\/building-a-secure-energy-future-demands-bold-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"The first US city to require solar rooftops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Building a Secure Energy Future Demands Bold Innovation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In March 2013, The Lancaster, California City Council unanimously approved changes to the city\u2019s zoning code that require housing developers to install solar with every new home they build.\u00a0<\/strong> Lancaster\u2019s now official Residential Zones Update specifies, along with a range of green building provisions, that new single family homes meet minimum solar system requirements in the same way that they must meet minimum parking space requirements.\u00a0 Residential homes on lots of 7,000 square feet or more must have a solar system of 1.0 kilowatts to 1.5 kilowatts. Rural residential homes of up to 100,000 square feet must have a system of at least 1.5 kilowatts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLancaster, CA is the first US city to require solar systems on rooftops\u201d said Alexandre Pavlovski, CEO of Green Power Labs Inc.\u00a0 \u201cThis is a bold, innovative move by the Lancaster City Council\u201d Pavlovski added \u201cand at Green Power Labs we have been working with other innovative communities to design not only solar friendly homes \u2013 but solar friendly subdivisions and communities\u201d.\u00a0 One example is the proposed athletes\u2019 village for the 2014 Commonwealth Games.\u00a0 Combining design technology with Green Power Labs\u2019 capacity to detect changes in solar resource as a result of these urban design features, the architectural team was able to build a virtual community to maximize the capacity of that community to harvest solar energy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe see community energy planning as critically important to build secure and resilient communities and we are pleased to work with energy leaders to accomplish their community energy objectives.\u201d\u00a0 Find out if your rooftop is solar friendly at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarrating.ca\">www.solarrating.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building a Secure Energy Future Demands Bold Innovation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenpowerlabs.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenpowerlabs.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenpowerlabs.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenpowerlabs.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenpowerlabs.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greenpowerlabs.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenpowerlabs.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenpowerlabs.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenpowerlabs.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenpowerlabs.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}