green tags/renewable energy certificates [RE-wrenches]

[Kelly Keilwitz]

Hi Marco,
In Oregon & Washington customers can sign up to pool their "Green
Attributes" with the Northwest Solar Co-op in a program called "Solar
Starters". They get 10 cents/KWH in return for giving up the right to claim
that their house is "solar powered". For example when I signed up I had to
remove the claim in our website that said that our office is solar powered.
However, we CAN claim that we have a solar array and are producing solar
energy for a distributed generation system, etc. The NW Solar co-op adds on
1cent/KWH for administration and resells the pooled green attributes to the
Bonneville Environmental Fountation for use in their Green Tags program.
5-year contract. We received our first check at the end of last year. Not
much, but more tangible, warmer, and fuzzier than a reduction in the utility
bill!
Doug at Cascade Solar, cascadesolar at attbi.com can give you more information.
-Kelly

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marco" <marco at pvthawaii.com>
To: <RE-wrenches at topica.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 5:45 PM
Subject: green tags/renewable energy certificates [RE-wrenches]


>
> Have any of you or your grid-connected customers signed up with Mainstay
> Energy (www.mainstayenergy.com) or other such company to receive the
"green
> tag" value for the solar kWhs produced?  Any feedback on how the system
> works for you and/or your client?  (Yes, I understand how it works in
> principle; I'm just wondering how it works in practice.)  For the most
part,
> it seems like the PV-kWh producer is getting something ($$) for nothing,
> even if that something is just enough to take the family out to a nice
> restaurant a couple of times a year.
>
> Or in the words of Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits, "money for nothing and
> your chicks for free....."?
>
> Marco Mangelsdorf
> President
> ProVision Technologies, Inc.
> 69 Railroad Avenue, Suite A-7
> Hilo, Hawaii 96720 USA
> (808) 969-3281, fax 934-7462
> www.provisiontechnologies.com
>
>
>
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