It’s a great thing to see more and more homes around that have solar panels to help power them. It’s an even better thing to read about entire communities that are springing up that rely almost solely on solar power. This story from The Mercury News is particularly astonishing to me because it highlights a community that has decided to remain completely off the power grid by using solar power and is in an area that has a reputation for cloudy weather, the Pacific Northwest. Not to mention, this neighborhood is apparently a well-to-do gated community, not one many might expect to be the rebellious, save the environment type. As the technology of solar panels becomes more and more advanced and prices inevitably drop, I can only hope to see many more stories like this one springing up all over the country.

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