Los Angeles Could Easily be a Solar-Powered City

UCLA’s Luskin Center has created a “Los Angeles Solar Atlas” showing the solar potential in Los Angeles County on a variety of different scales. It created solar maps for each city and zone in the county and for the jurisdiction of each of the county’s 7 utilities, as well as for the county as a whole.

Some key findings include that:
•Nearly 1.5 million rooftops throughout Los Angeles County could be used as solar power generators.
•On the whole, there’s currently enough potential roof space to create 19,000 MW from rooftop solar.
•The total rooftop solar potential for the city of Los Angeles is over 5,500 MW, which could power the city on most days. (The highest-ever peak in Los Angeles was 6,177.) Of course, the city must have more power capacity than is needed at peak times.

Source: EcoLocalizer