California's Community Renewable Energy Program (SB-43) and successor frameworks let renters and customers without rooftops subscribe to off-site shared solar. In San Jose this is delivered through San Jose Clean Energy CCA programs and PG&E's regulated community solar tariffs.
California Senate Bill 43 (2013) created a Green Tariff/Shared Renewables program letting investor-owned utility customers buy electricity from specific renewable projects without owning panels. The CPUC has since expanded community solar through Disadvantaged Communities Green Tariff and the new federal-IRA-aligned community solar pilots. In San Jose, electricity service is provided by San Jose Clean Energy (SJCE), the city's Community Choice Aggregator, with PG&E delivering wires and billing. SJCE offers TotalGreen 100 percent renewable opt-in and supports community-solar style products. PG&E's Solar Choice and Disadvantaged Communities Green Tariff are also available. Subscribers see line-item bill credits without rooftop installation.
Community solar is a voluntary subscription with no enforcement against individual customers. Project developers are regulated by the CPUC and must comply with interconnection, marketing, and consumer-protection rules; violations can result in CPUC fines and program disqualification.
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San Jose Municipal Code Title 7 (Animal Care and Control) requires dogs in public places, city parks, and trails to be on a leash no longer than six feet, re...
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San Jose imposes no general restriction on year-round lawn ornaments, statuary, or religious displays on private residential property. The sign code (SJMC Ch...
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San Jose has no city ordinance specifically regulating residential inflatable holiday displays. Size, height, and motor noise are not restricted by the munic...
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San Jose has no ordinance limiting the duration, brightness, or hours of residential holiday lighting. The general nuisance provisions in SJMC Title 6 and th...
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A built-in outdoor kitchen in San Jose typically requires multiple permits: a building permit for any structural roof or counter exceeding the patio cover ex...
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San Jose does not have a dedicated ordinance for backyard smokers, pellet grills, or wood-fired ovens. Use is governed by the multifamily balcony restriction...
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