Proposed Changes to C.E.C. rebates in California [RE-wrenches]

[Jerry Caldwell]

Perhaps we could start a petition that would be signed
by pv industry professionals and addressed to the CEC
asking them to reconsider jacking the rebate up to
$4.50 including our list of reasons.

They could better spend the money on training, system
perfomance verification through metering, or even
lobbying the state legislature to create an electric
feed law for commercial scale systems with more
incentive than plain old net metering.

Jerry Caldwell

--- "Michael Welch, Home Power"
<michael.welch at homepower.com> wrote:
> Travis Creswell, Ozark Solar wrote at 12:35 PM
> 05/10/2001 -0500:
>   
> >Bill's suggestion of going to CA is not to bad
> although.  I'm booked up
> >through June.  Anybody need help in July?  "Have
> tools, will travel".
> 
> The next thing that is going to happen is that we
> are going to run out of PV modules. Some folks in CA
> will be paying over 20 cents per KWH for grid power,
> and with the new rebates (if), it comes very close
> to making economic sense to install PV or wind.
> 
> Who is going to build all these new "CA Buy Down
> Program" approved modules? Manufacturers are already
> reporting significant delays in shipping due to
> demand. I imagine that module prices have already
> increased somewhat as a result.
> 
> Think about what will happen to national &
> international module prices once the CA program gets
> into full swing. I seriously doubt if manufacturers
> could keep up with CA demand for household PV alone,
> let alone everything else. I heard David Katz remark
> that at current production rates, it would take 50
> years of manufacturing using every international PV
> manufacturing facility to meet CA's needs via PV.
>   
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