Attention: California PHEV, EV Drivers

California Solar Incentive Program

The California Public Utilities Commission is committed to solar resources for assuring the reliability of the state's electricity system. On Jan. 12, 2006, we approved the California Solar Initiative (CSI), a comprehensive $2.8 billion program that provides incentives toward solar development over 11 years. It also develops complementary policies and rules, sets new incentive levels, and addresses program administration. On March 2, 2006, the Commission opened a proceeding to allow us to develop rules and procedures for the initiative and to continue our consideration more generally of policies for the development of cost-effective, clean and reliable distributed generation (DG).

Due to demand for solar rebates, the solar incentives approved by the Commission will change from $2.80/watt to $2.50/watt to preserve program funding.

http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/static/energy/solar/_index.htm


The California Solar Initiative would initially provide subsidies of roughly one-third the cost of a residential rooftop photovoltaic system, which typically costs $16,000 to $25,000.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/busines...-1b14solar.html

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