Wisconsin Energy Conservation Corporation (WECC) is proud to announce the addition of Niels Wolter and Kevin DeMaster to their energy efficiency and renewable energy team. Wolter will oversee the company‚ s Solar Electric Program and DeMaster will be program director of its Business Programs. WECC is an IREC member. Wolter brings nearly a decade of ... Read More
Archive for April, 2007
Partnership Brings Solar Power To New Orleans Residents
Monday, April 16th, 2007Rachel Robertson was in her house in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans when the Industrial Canal failed on the morning of August 29, 2005 following Hurricane Katrina. Within thirty minutes, the water level was up to seven feet inside her home. Rachel, along with a neighbor and two children, retreated to her attic ... Read More
DOE Issues "Best Practices" for Interconnection Procedures
Friday, April 13th, 2007The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) and Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE) have jointly issued a document that highlights the current “best practices” of interconnection procedures. The text of this document, published March 15, 2007, appears verbatim below: The U.S. Department of Energy‚ s Office ... Read More
OHIO – PUCO Overhauls Net-Metering, Interconnection Rules
Friday, April 13th, 2007Prompted by the federal Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct 2005,) the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) has adopted revised standards for net metering. Furthermore, PUCO has supplanted its existing interconnection standards with new standards and taken additional measures to support the deployment of distributed generation (DG) in the state. PUCO modified its existing ... Read More
New Arkansas Law Bolsters Net Metering
Friday, April 13th, 2007Arkansas has enacted legislation (HB 2334) that will expand the state’s net-metering policy in three ways. First, the new law — which will take effect January 1, 2008 — expands the maximum capacity of a commercial net-metered system from 100 kilowatts (kW) to 300 kilowatts, and extends the availability of net metering to all other ... Read More
California’s SMUD Scraps Requirement for Disconnect Switch
Friday, April 13th, 2007The Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) no longer requires an AC disconnect switch on residential and commercial inverter-based photovoltaic (PV) systems when the facility has a self-contained electric meter. Most of SMUD’s customers have this kind of meter, according to the utility. SMUD, which announced this policy change in February 2007, has become the second ... Read More
NEW YORK – Central Hudson Again Flirts with Aggregate Net-Metering Limit
Friday, April 13th, 2007Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation, an investor-owned utility operating in New York, has announced that the total capacity of connected and pending net-metered photovoltaic (PV) systems in its service territory currently has nearly reached the aggregate capacity limit established by the New York Public Service Commission (PSC). The PSC raised the limit for Central ... Read More
Maryland Passes 1,400 Solar RPS; Destined for Governor’s Desk
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007On April 10th, the Maryland legislature passed SB 595 which calls for 1400 MW of solar on rooftops over the next 15 years, placing Maryland in the upper echelon of solar-supporting states. The bill, which will be signed by the governor on April 24th, includes a 2 MW net metering provision, according to IREC’s Chris ... Read More
State & Stakeholder Newsletter, 4/11/07
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007Download Newsletter_041107.doc Download Newsletter_041107.pdf Wednesday, April 11, 2007 Volume #6, Issue #7 Editor: Jane Pulaski The IREC State & Stakeholder Newsletter tracks a range of market-oriented news, services and outreach tools valuable to the renewable energy community. From webinars to white papers to workkshops and interviews with renewable energy newsmakers, you’ll find the latest news ... Read More
