Solar

Solar Power to the People
Overview
Learn more about solar energy technologies, tools, and incentive programs available for residents, businesses and nonprofits in San Francisco to make the sun work for you.
Residents
Get solar incentives for your home. Use clean energy from the sun to reduce your energy bills!
Commercial/Multifamily
To accelerate the adoption of solar electric systems in San Francisco, the City is offering incentives to San Francisco residents, businesses, and non-profits to install solar on their properties.

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Our sun provides us with an abundance of clean and renewable solar energy. Solar energy can be converted into electricity by utilizing proven and robust technologies. With increased awareness of the environmental, health, and security impacts related to the burning of fossil fuels, it's clear that generating more of our electricity from solar energy is becoming a wiser choice every day.

 
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Using the sun’s energy to heat your domestic hot water is clean and economical. Solar water heating is an efficient use of solar energy that has been largely overlooked. Cut your utility bill and decrease carbon emissions by harnessing the solar potential on your roof to meet your home or business water heating needs. 

 
San Francisco’s Solar+Storage for Resiliency project aims to expand the solar market by serving as a national model for integrating solar and energy storage into the City's Emergency Response Plans. Read>