Utility raids CEC rebate funds for 5 MW solar project [RE-wrenches]

[joeldavidson at earthlink.net]

BP Solar, Evergreen Solar, Kyocera, PowerLight, RWE Schott, Sanyo, Sharp
and Shell formed the PV Now committee under national SEIA and are on record
against SCE proposal to spend scarce Public Goods Charge funds. This is
contrary to SCE's assertion that their proposal "would encourage the
development of this emergying technology." You have to wonder what's going
on when PV module manufacturers collectively don't like SCE's 5 MW deal.

Original Message:
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From:  graham at solarexpert.com
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 18:11:02 -0800
To: RE-wrenches at topica.com
Subject: RE: Utility raids CEC rebate funds for 5 MW solar project
[RE-wrenches]


If this goes through the money will be raided from less than 30kW
account which would definitely hurt residential wrenches.

I believe the CEC, who has the final vote, will kill this deal.

SCE press release: http://www.edison.com/media/indiv_pr.asp?id=4673

Global Solar is supposed to install the system.  www.globalsolar.com

Global Solar, TrueSolar, TruePricing and Tucson electric Power are all
owned by UniSource Energy.

BTW... The deciding vote of approval for this project was cast by CPUC
Commissioner Peevey, who used to be the Founder and CEO of TruePricing
and before that was President of SCE.

This stinks.

Graham





-----Original Message-----
From: Marco [mailto:marco at pvthawaii.com] 
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 6:00 PM
To: RE-wrenches at topica.com
Subject: RE: Utility raids CEC rebate funds for 5 MW solar project
[RE-wrenches]


Is the possible/likely final approval of this going to affect the CEC
buydown money for larger systems over 30 kW or is it going to suck up
money for 1-29 kW systems as well?  Either way, it sounds like a bad
thing for many CA. wrenches.

marco
ProVision

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