Yolo County, America’s 1st Grid-Positive County

Clean Technica: Yolo is the only grid-positive county in the United States. It does not have an electric bill. Pacific Gas and Electric will have to pay Yolo around $500,000 a year for the surplus electricity it feeds the grid! Now Terry Vernon, deputy director of Yolo County General Services, wants to improve on that. He would like to add another renewable energy project that would boost the county’s revenues by another $5 million a year.

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