For awhile we have been hearing about the LEED platinum home Ed Begley Jr. is building, and most comments were on his beautiful, recycled glass tile.
An article in the UT http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2015/jul/10/glamorous-tile-from-recycled-glass/ has revealed the manufacture.
The manufacturer is Oceanside Glasstile in Carlsbad and they have an interactive website that helps you design the space. http://glasstile.com/
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San Diegans who are between 25 and 30 years old may be graying by the time they can save enough to buy a median-priced home here.
A study released Wednesday by real-estate tracker Trulia says it would take 18 years for a San Diego household of college-educated young professionals earning the median income to afford a median-priced home in the county.
More specifically, a household earning $89,000 per year that can save 10 percent of its income for 18 years would then have enough money for the standard 20 percent downpayment on a median-priced home of $589,000 in the county, Trulia says. San Diego ranked as the nation’s fourth most difficult city to save to buy a home.
read more at: http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2015/jul/08/trulia-down-payment-savings-real-estate/
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It will get a little harder soon for rooftop solar households to “zero out” their utility bills and avoid standard charges, under rate changes adopted last week by the California Public Utilities Commission.
The commission authorized San Diego Gas & Electric to double its minimum charge on monthly residential utility bills to $10. The change will be phased in starting in November and eventually rise beyond $10 to offset inflation.
The majority of customers pay at least that much for electricity and won’t see any difference unless they shut off the power during an extended vacation.
A small portion of rooftop solar households, however, are accustomed to offsetting their entire electric bill with solar energy. Households that produce their own electricity under the state’s “net metering” provisions can offset their power use at the full retail rate, effectively winding the electric meter back to zero.
“They don’t get the minimum charges back if they overproduce electricity,” said Brad Heavner, policy director for the California Solar Energy Industries Association.
SDG&E spokeswoman Amber Albrecht said solar customers can still offset utility charges entirely by producing surplus solar electricity that is sold back to the utility at about 4 cents a kilowatt hour.
The utility does not gain additional revenue from the minimum charge because other customers are billed less as a result.
Solar customers in San Diego have the option of paying their electric bill once a year, according to a preliminary estimate by SDG&E.
As a result of bill changes, about 1,000 additional solar households in the San Diego region will have minimum bill charges to pay at the end of each year, according to a preliminary estimate by SDG&E.
read more at: http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2015/jul/07/solar-benefits-dwindle/
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