“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 about a week to get them on the website. This derailed my post summit post intentions, and I moved onto pressing topics like Skyline Solar and power electronics.
SolarTech and CALSEIA
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 electric power generated. In effect, the electric bill can go negative with a credit for the system owner.
AB 1920 is a bill authored by California Assembly member Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael) as a result of entries by his constituents in the 2008 “There Oughta to be a Law” contest (see Huffman Watch: Our Assemblyman at Work). AB 1920
Monday, June 4, 2007 2:55 am | Edgar A. Gunther
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 Commercial system installations have been completed in 2007. Don’t be deceived by the Statistics sheet; this includes prior year data despite the title.
Beyond the publicized Time of Use issue I mentioned at the end of California Clean Tech Open 2007 Kick-off Event
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