LADWP [RE-wrenches]

[Joel Davidson]

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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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