It also calls for 50% of the state's electricity supply to be derived from renewable resources by that date, and 50% better energy efficiency in buildings through retrofits and upgrades.
He added that creating jobs was a focus of the legislation, and citied previous actions such as Proposition 39, passed in 2012, which provided funds for green retrofits in schools, and created jobs performing that work.
The future is not endless retrofits of existing copper wire; it is fibre, and if existing telecom companies cannot or will not deliver it, they will go the way of Kodak.
London architect Justin Bere specialises in Passivhaus new-builds and retrofits, and has completed one-off projects in Camden and Stoke Newington.
But the state doesn't want to approve the $1 billion in retrofits, which Akins says would increase electricity rates by 30 percent, hurting consumers and businesses.
Efficiency retrofits also have the virtue of quickly creating construction jobs.
Kauffman has all sorts of plans, from a "green bank" — to attract private-sector capital to finance extensive energy-saving retrofits — to new rules that would pressure utilities to play nicely with outside partners like Solar City.
If you combined those super-windows with retrofits that bounced the daylight all the way through the floor plate and with very efficient lights and lighting controls and office equipment, you could cut the peak cooling load on the hottest afternoon more than fourfold.
But if I go there and the people who are doing the retrofits are just the people who used to have jobs anyway, and they're mostly all one color and mostly all one kind of people, then I'm not going to be satisfied.
Kelly Cobeen, a structural engineer with Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates in Emeryville, said some contractors are qualified to do retrofits and some are not.
The report notes that wastewater plants that make discharges into ocean and estuaries, like many in Florida, are most suitable for recycling retrofits; high recycling rates along inland rivers could inhibit stream flow and raise legal questions over access rights for downstream users.
