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Los Angeles Rejects Plan for Massive Solar Power Project, but Activists Persist
As part of the city's plans to generate 10% of its electricity needs from solar energy by 2020, Measure B would have allowed the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power to install up to 400 MW of solar on municipal rooftops by 2014 - a plan to drape 1,500 acres of silicon panels across the citys roofs, as someone described it.
The idea was to place solar photovoltaic systems throughout the city and connect them to the city's existing electrical grid. The DWP would own and maintain the solar panels. It would also have meant considerable job generation at a time of grave downturn.
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa who was behind the idea got re-elected, but Measure B was defeated narrowly, by a thousand votes, it was announced Thursday.
Foes had complained that the plan had only three weeks of public discussion before the City Council placed it on the March 3 ballot.
Even the leading Los Angeles Times campaigned against the Measure. How much will it cost ratepayers? Is it financially feasible? How much money will it take to recruit and train new workers?" it asked and charged, "The process seems designed to get voters to sign off on a plan without sufficient knowledge of it, and it is undermining a broader discussion of solar power in Los
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