Solar panels vanishing, selling on eBay

  • 25/09/2008

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)

BY KATE GALBRAITH CALIFORNIA Solar power, with its promise of emissions free renewable energy, boasts a growing number of fans. Some of them, it turns out, are thieves. Just ask Glenda Hoffman, whose fury has not abated since 16 solar panels vanished from her roof in this sun-baked town in three separate burglaries in May, sometimes as she slept. She is ready if the criminals turn up again.