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Bill Shepherd Energy & Business Services Manager Gainesville Regional Utilities May 3rd, 2010
Presentation Outline
Introduction and Overview Challenges of current rebate-based model GRUs FIT Setting the price Lessons Learned Summary
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Solar water heater rebate Residential solar photovoltaic rebates Net metering Feed-in Tariff (FIT)
32 MW by 2016
Strong community environmental ethic Continuous advances in cost-effectiveness Largest single source of energy on planet
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GRUs FIT
Designed to ensure profitability to owner for investment Different prices offered based on roof mount versus Greenfield
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Cost neutral compared with our rebate and net metering program Modeled total cost to customers
Photo Credit: Kelly LaDuke for The New York Times
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Lessons Learned
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Ground mount projects needed extra time to allow for permitting Financing became difficult for large projects Systems <100 kW moved through process much quicker Energy Delivery group concerned with impact of large systems
especially with small or constrained circuits
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Future considerations
Charge application and/or capacity reservations for projects allowed to build early More stringent with extension requests Differentiate tariff rates based on observed system costs
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Summary
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Program Stats
1,855 kW installed
804 FIT 1,050 Net Metered
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GRUs Objectives
Encourage early private investment and innovation in photovoltaic installations Assure good performance from installed PV systems Make solar PV a good investment for both GRU and our customers Adds diversity to our fuel mix
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FIT in a Nutshell
Simple to understand, easy to explain GRU will purchase all the energy produced by the PV system over the next 20 years for 32 cents per kWh.
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The End
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