Having
solar panels installed in your San Diego home helps the economy of
California, and the United States in more ways than one. First of
all, the nonrenewable sources of energy that the US consumes are
costly and are imported from other parts of the world. On the other
hand, investments in renewable energy are utilized for spending on
materials and worker skills mostly based within the state or country.
In this manner, jobs are created and local economies are given
opportunities to grow.
Second,
as long as the US remains dependent on other nations for energy
resources, it would always compromise its security and economic
policies. In fact, interests on the sun, as a source of light energy
that could be converted to electricity has been around since the
1860s as the fears of the depletion of coal crept onto societies of
that period.
Interests in developing
solar energy again were renewed more than a century later in the
seventies beginning with the Yom Kippur War, where American
assistance to an attacked Israel caused Arab countries to proclaim an
oil embargo. In the late 1990s, concerns about global warming became
one of the prominent reasons for developing solar and other
sustainable forms of energy.
