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97
Id.
98
See
Orton,
supra
note 92.
99
S id.
100
Id.
101
At least one researcher of this topic has made a similar observation.
See
Kimberly Kooles, et al.,
Installing Solar Panels on Historic Buildings
, U.S.
Dept. of Energy (August 2012), available at
http://ncsc.ncsu.edu/wp-content/
visited Aug. 19, 2013) (noting that “there will be certain historic properties
for which solar energy systems may not be appropriate”).
102
See, e.g
., N.M. Stat. § 3-18-32 (specifically allowing restrictions on solar
energy systems in historic districts).
103
See
Frances d'Emilio,
Vatican Pushes Solar Energy
, Boston Globe (June 6,
2007).
104
See
Jim Greenhalf,
Solar Panels Go on Bradford Cathedral Roof
, Telegraph
& Argus (Aug. 24, 2011), available at
www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/
news/9213579.Solar_panels_go_on_Bradford_Cathedral_roof/
(last visited
Aug. 19, 2013).
105
See
Justin Gerdes,
Solar-Powered Microgrid Slashes Alcatraz Island's
Dependence on Fossil Fuels
, Forbes (July 30, 2012), available at
www.forbes.
islands-dependence-on-fossil-fuels/
(last visited Aug. 19, 2013).
106
Jimmy Carter was the first president to install solar panels on the White House
roof, having done so during his presidency in the late 1970s.
See
Juliet Eilperin,
White House Solar Panels Being Installed This Week
, Washington Post
(Aug. 15, 2013), available at
www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/
Aug. 19, 2013).
107
See
note 91,
supra
.
108
See generally
16 U.S.C. § 470 (1992).
109
For a list of U.S. state and local historic preservation laws relating to solar
energy installations,
see
A. Kandt, et al.,
Implementing Solar PV Projects on
Historic Buildings and in Historic Districts
at 21-23, NREL/TP-7A40-5197
(Sept. 2011), available at
www.nrel.gov/docs/fy11osti/51297.pdf
(last visited
Aug. 20, 2013).
110
For a detailed description of U.S. historic preservation laws and how they
might affect distributed solar energy development,
see
id. at 3-9.
111
See
id. at 20.
112
See
Emily Hois,
Colored Solar Panels Address Concerns of Aesthetics,
Historic Preservation
,
solarreviews.com
(April 30, 2013), available at
www.
historic-preservation/
(last visited Aug. 20, 2013).
113
See, e.g
., Hois,
supra
note 112 (noting that “consumers should expect to pay
two or three times more for adding color to normal PV cells”).
114
Maine Rev. Stat. Ann. § 1423.4.C.
115
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 7-147(a).
116
Cal. Civ. Code § 714(b).
117
Cal. Civ. Code § 714(d)(1)(B).
118
See
Timothy H. Powell,
Revisiting Federalism Concerns in the Offshore Wind
Energy Industry in Light of Continued Local Opposition to the Cape Wind
Project
, 92 B.U. L. Rev. 2023, 2039 (2012).
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