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Nipton goes Skyline Solar

~80.6 kiloWatt-peak (kWp) DC High Gain Solar (HGS) project awaiting final interconnections.

$4.05 per Watt-peak DC installation cost per the CSI data.

I first became aware of a new Skyline Solar, Inc. project located in Nipton, California USA (http://www.nipton.com/) via the California Solar Statistics website which provides program and application information on the California Solar Initiative (CSI). I contacted Skyline Solar in April 2010; they didn’t comment preferring to announce finished projects.

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SolarTech / CALSEIA Summit

“Accelerating the Solar Economy”
Pending AB 560 and SB 32 legislation top CALSEIA’s priorities.
I discovered over a week ago the presentations from The 1st Annual SolarTech / CALSEIA Summit held in early May were online and had been for some time. When I inquired the day after the summit, I was informed it would take [...]

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AB 1920: California bill goes beyond Net Metering

Requires California Utilities to pay for excess solar electric (and wind) power generation.
Under the California Solar Initiative (CSI), net metering limits your electric bill to near zero even if your photovoltaic system generates more power than you consume. AB 1920 corrects this situation by forcing utilities to compensate photovoltaic system owners for any excess solar [...]

   

California Solar Initiative: No solar home installations “completed” yet in 2007

CSI should examine the Evidence of problems beyond Time of Use Rates

In The Monterey County Herald Guest commentary, Dale Julin reports STATE SOLAR PROJECT SHADY: Stalled initiative squeezing smaller companies.

As recent as May 21, 2007, the CSI & SGIP Statewide Average Systems Costs (May 2007) (downloadable Excel file) proves no CSI Residential or [...]