By harnessing the immense solar resources available to this High Desert community, Lancaster is making great strides to becoming the world's solar capital.  Its culture to "go solar" is highly pervasive, as reflected by its ambitious goals to be one of the world's net-zero cities for electrical use by 2020. To support that effort, the city has created a pro-business environment, including an easy permitting process, and it has adopted solar requirements for new homes, the first program of its kind in the nation.