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The new California Solar Initative (CSI)

The (Solar) New Year is off to an exciting start! SB1, the million solar roofs bill signed into law last year went into effect January 1st, and is now called the California Solar Initiative or CSI. There have been quite a few changes to the requirements for designing and installing solar electric systems that are beneficial to architects, contractors and solar system owners:
1) The rebates are now based on the expected system performance, rather than the size of the system (in the past it was a capacity based incentive and now it is a performance based incentive).
2) The highest rebates will be paid for systems that produce the most electricity in the summer peak demand season.
Summer peak demand in SCE service territory is defined as 10 AM to 6 PM, Monday through Friday starting the first

Sunday of June running until the first Sunday in October.
3) Solar electric systems designed facing anywhere from south to west will have now have higher rebates than systems facing east (no incentives for system facing north).
4) A system designed with a lower degree of tilt (10 to 17 degrees) will pay more rebate than one designed with a tilt at latitude (34 degrees).
5) Incentives will be higher for non profits, schools and government buildings.
6) Solar system owners will now have the option of an up front incentive (expected performance based incentive, or one paid monthly over 5 years based on the actual kilowatt hour production of the system).
7) First come first served, as in the past the rebates will decrease over time; the more applications the program administrators receive, the lower the rebate (based on MW triggers).
8) Anyone participating in the rebate program is now required to first conduct an energy efficiency survey.

Anyone with questions about the new program or solar in general, feel free to give me a call.
Here are a few websites for more information;
SCE Program Administrator
http://www.sce.com/RebatesandSavings/CaliforniaSolarInitiative/
CSI Handbook and Forms
http://www.sce.com/RebatesandSavings/CaliforniaSolarInitiative/2007Handbook.htm

Michael Lind

Sr. Solar Energy Consultant
REC Solar
2894 Bunsen Ave. Suite L
Ventura, CA 93003
Phone: (805) 302-6005

“All the energy stored in Earth’s reserves of coal, oil, and natural gas is matched by the energy from just 20 days of sunshine.” -–Union of Concerned Scientists

Posted by Michael Lind on February 26, 2007 12:16 PM | | | The new California Solar Initative (CSI)

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