In the city's general plan, the Energy Element (Chapter 10) discusses renewable energy sources including solar and includes many policies and programs that address solar, such as encouraging landscaping conducive to solar panels, using solar in public facilities and encouraging the use of solar in private facilities, requiring solar water heating and/or PV-ready roofs in new construction, developing a solar cities program or standardized solar-energy-system-installation designs for residences and potentially for businesses, and encouraging distributed generation(Program 4.2, Program 7.2, Program 7.6, Program 7.9, Program 8.3).