LADWP [RE-wrenches]

[William Korthof]

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Joel,

$0.14/kwh x 20 years would imply a rebate around $5/watt AC.
That's more generous that I expected. By a lot... is that real?

/wk


Joel Davidson wrote:
> 
> Hello William,
> 
> I also can not get PVWATTS V2 to go from the map to the data screens 
> following the LADWP instructions.
> 
> You are right about $0.14/kWh if you already have projects in the queue. 
> 8/3/06 application forms are available to customers currently on LADWP's 
> waiting list, unless they are affordable housing PV projects.
> 
> 8/14/06 LADWP starts taking reservation requests for new projects.
> 
> LADWP's revised rebate program is a bureaucratic disgrace compared to 
> New Jersey's simple rebate process.
> 
> For decades LADWP boasted that it was pro-solar but did nothing. Then 
> David Freeman became general manager, fired 2000 employees (with no 
> impact on service quality), eliminated the multi-billion dollar debt 
> that the bureaucracy had caused, and started a solar program. A few PV 
> projects got started despite resistance from the bureaucracy. As soon as 
> Freeman left, the bureaucracy went back to its bad old ways of boasting 
> about solar but doing very little. Compare SMUD's PV programs to PV in 
> LADWP territory and it's like day and night. LADWP's entrenched 
> bureaucracy has either intentionally nipped or ineptly mismanaged every 
> effort to expand PV in LA. The new mayor and utility commissioners 
> should clean house.
> 
> Joel Davidson
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Korthof" 
> <wkorthof at earthlink.net>
> To: <RE-wrenches at topica.com>
> Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 4:45 PM
> Subject: LADWP [RE-wrenches]
> 
> 
>>
>> They're doing it again.
>>
>> LADWP is supposedly on track to reauthorize a solar rebate program. 
>> They've put together a "design based incentive". If I've managed to 
>> understand this correctly, the incentive is supposed to be $0.14 per 
>> kWh times the predicted system output over 20 years, from a customized 
>> version of PVWatts (a DOE solar output estimation tool I never use):
>> http://mapserve2.nrel.gov/website/LA_PVWatts/viewer.htm
>>
>> I clicked the link and got a spiffy, colored "smart" map with many 
>> selectible layers (bar on right side). The link to PVwatts layer (V2) 
>> doesn't seem to cause anything useful to pop up. Hmmmmm. Otherwise, I 
>> don't see any functionality with this program. Weird.
>>
>> Leaving asside my comments about how this program seems to be an 
>> arcane divergence from an effective solar incentive, bound to serious 
>> confusion and mistakes among installers and customers and very 
>> difficult to administer, applications will loaded with "errors" and 
>> the queue will inevitably log-jam in short order due to"insufficent 
>> staffing"...
>>
>> At this point, after 3.5 years of no solar program, we have dozens of 
>> LADWP customers who want solar and are ready to sign a contract. 
>> Several already have, a few even have completed (unrebated) systems. 
>> But the mostly people are expecting some sort of reasonable rebate, 
>> like what customers of all other major utilities in the state have 
>> enjoyed for years. Can anyone help figure out what the deal is?
>>
>>
>> William Korthof
>> Energy Efficiency Solar
>>
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