At the end of the day, this is the biggest solar power bill in the nation.

As huge energy bills hit California mailboxes this month, there is no better time to jumpstart a mainstream solar power market. Today's vote promises to eclipse expensive and imported fossil fuels with clean and homegrown solar power.

Today's vote promises to ultimately eclipse dirty and expensive fossil fuel with clean and efficient solar power.

Now the finger pointing will start, everyone having someone else to blame but at the end of the day, Sacramento failed to reach what was an easy compromise. Ultimately the problem with the Million Solar Roofs bill wasn't the policy, it was the politics.

Going from Middle Eastern oil to coal and nukes to solve our addiction is like going from one hard-core drug to another.

Solar has always been the little cousin left out. It always has been pitted as this boutique, niche technology for backwoods hippies or Malibu millionaires.