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California Solar Initiative Public Forum Hosted by CCSE

October 15, 2008. California Solar Initiative Public Forum Hosted by CCSE. Agenda. Program Statistics Statewide Application Tool What’s new for 2009 Open Question and Answer. California Solar Initiative Update.

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California Solar Initiative Public Forum Hosted by CCSE

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  1. October 15, 2008 California Solar Initiative Public ForumHosted by CCSE

  2. Agenda • Program Statistics • Statewide Application Tool • What’s new for 2009 • Open Question and Answer

  3. California Solar Initiative Update Molly Tirpak SterkelCalifornia Public Utilities CommissionCSI Program Forum - Solar Power 2008San Diego, CAOctober 2008 California Solar Policies and Programs

  4. California Solar Initiative - 2008 Progress Staff Progress Report available at: www.GoSolarCalifornia.ca.gov

  5. California installed 392 MW PV at 40,000+ sites thru October 2008

  6. Projects Moving Through Pipeline

  7. CSI Projects: Installed and Pending

  8. CSI Applications By IOU Territory

  9. Total Capacity of Applications

  10. CSI Applications by Month

  11. Progress Towards Goals

  12. Incentives Decline as Demand Grows

  13. Current Incentive Levels in CA - Oct 2008 Incentive Levels • $1.90/watt - Residential • Except SCE: $2.20/watt • $1.55/watt - Commercial • $2.30/watt - Non-Profit/Govt

  14. New Program Materials • Consumer Guide • New Online Applicant Tutorial • New Statistics Website - public reporting

  15. CaliforniaSolarStatistics.org

  16. Additional Information • CPUC website www.cpuc.ca.gov • GoSolarCalifornia.ca.gov (Booth 1024)

  17. Statewide Application Tool PG&E

  18. What’s New for 2009 CCSE

  19. New Markets Served • Low Income Community • Single Family -- $108 million • Multi-Family -- $108 million • Other Solar Electric technology • Electric Displacement technologies • $100.8 million • Research Development and Deployment • Technologies to support the solar marketplace • $50 million

  20. Incentive Calculator • Based on the CEC’s Guidelines for Solar Participation • Incorporate Time Dependent Values (TDV) for each hour of the day • Wind speed (aka height above ground) • Evaluate each production hour – shade

  21. Incentive Calculator – cont’d • Goals • Transparent as possible • Maintain look and feel of current • Minimize unique inputs • Changes will be announced far in advance • Based on adoption of Guideline document – final document set for 11/08.

  22. Inspection/Verification Process • Change our forms to include Installer sign-off on various aspects of quality control. • Voltage, shade, etc. • 3rd Party Inspectors will be measuring temperature/irradiance for use with more detailed system output validation (no affect on installers)

  23. Energy Efficiency (EE) • Option A – Revised Energy Efficiency Audit only • Option B – Revised Energy Efficiency Audit + adoption of EE measure(s) • Final verdict TBD • Announcement and training well in advance of requirement

  24. Application Process • Streamlining – the following are being discussed • 1) Eliminate duplication of system info between EPBB and Reservation Requestion Form • 2) Revise Reservation stage to have no system information • This data is already collected at a later stage • 3) Allow for electronic signatures • 4) Eliminate Residential Reservation altogether • Provide information only once system is installed

  25. Question and Answer

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