Originally published February 6 2006
California Solar Initiative lauded throughout the state for its encouragement of solar solutions
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Donald Osborn, CEO of Spectrum Energy Inc., discusses the many advantages of the California Solar Initiative (CSI), which will allow more businesses and consumers to feel the benefits of solar technologies.
The California Million Solar Roofs Initiative, its legislative incarnation SB1, and now the proposed California Solar Initiative (CSI) have captured the imagination and widespread, enthusiastic support of the solar and environmental communities and the California public at large.
The state's Public Utilities Commission (PUC) - which last week unveiled the most promising version of the plan - received as many as 50,000 public comments in support of the initiative.
The plan builds on the successes and addresses problems of the SGIP and ERP in a way that puts our state on a firm, sustained, orderly development path for solar commercialization.
In order to accelerate the long-term cost reductions required for full commercialization, the solar industry needs reliable, growing and sustained domestic market volume.
What is needed are sustained incentives that will expand supply, help reduce transactional costs, and lower installed costs over time -- and this is what the PUC has proposed.
The CEC PBI pilot clearly shows the weakness of this approach in the real world.
Even though, for commercial scale projects, it was literally the only game in town, just 30 percent of the $10 million PBI fund was used after nearly a year of the pilot program.
- While keeping the downward pressure on PV prices by ramping down the incentive levels, be sure to keep the flexibility for the incentive levels to respond to the market and module costs.
Given the program and policies the PUC is proposing, PV has the ability to meet the aggressive penetration levels needed for it to play a significant role in meeting the sustainable, clean energy targets that a wide variety of pressing concerns require, and in the time frames needed.
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