Last week, the Sonoma County Energy Independence Program (SCEIP) celebrated the completion of the first energy project and financial award in its history. From application to payout, the entire process took less than six weeks (see Solar in Santa Rosa/Solar Sonoma County: It’s a countywide affair, IREC website, 4.21.09) SCEIP was made possible by California ... Read More
Archive for May, 2009
Freeing The Grid: States moving to the head of the class
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009How does something so unglamorous as, say, a state’s net metering and interconnection policies, normally of interest to a small group of people, become so sophisticated, so fashionable, so competitive? Since 2006, The Network for New Energy Choices (NNEC) has issued Freeing the Grid (FTG), a report card grading states’ policies for allowing homeowners and ... Read More
2009 Small Wind State Reports
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009You can download below a file with 2009 state reports on small wind programs and activities.
IREC Small Wind State Stakeholders Meeting
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009The 2009 IREC Small Wind State Stakeholders Meeting was held May 6, 2009 at the WINDPOWER 2009 Conference in Chicago. You can download the Agenda and presentations below. Agenda-2009SmallWindStateMeeting.pdf Forsyth-IREC-5-6-09.pdf Stimmel-Permitting-IREC-5-6-09.pdf Sagrillo-IREC-5-6-09.pdf Regional_Test_Centers-_IREC-5-6-09.pdf UL_Wind_Turbine_Certifications-IREC-5-6-09.pdf Sherwood-SWCC-IREC-5-6-09.pdf
State & Stakeholder Newsletter, May 20, 2009
Monday, May 18th, 2009Wednesday, May 20, 2009 Volume #8, Issue #10 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. This free newsletter is distributed semi-monthly to email subscribers and published on IREC’s website. If you have comments or if you would ... Read More
IREC’s Jane Weissman Video Interview at ASES
Sunday, May 17th, 2009IREC’s Jane Weissman talked about renewable energy training and certification with Renewable Energy World’s Stephen Lacy at the recent ASES 09 conference in Buffalo, New York. Watch the interview.
DSIRE Launches New Solar Site
Friday, May 15th, 2009The DSIRE website has gone solar. DSIRE SOLAR is a new component of the DSIRE project that provides solar-specific policy information to consumers, policy makers, program administrators, the solar industry and other stakeholders. Sue Gouchoe, DSIRE’s program lead and a very laid-back kind of gal, was enthusiastically handing out cards at the ASES 2009 conference ... Read More
IREC Goes to ASES 09; Presentations Available
Thursday, May 14th, 2009IREC’s net metering, small wind, and workforce development experts were in full attendance recently at the American Solar Energy Society’s 2009 Solar Conference in Buffalo, NY. It was a very full agenda; often the IREC team was presenting at the same time on different topics in different rooms. That’s how it was on the first ... Read More
Colorado PUC Issues Recommended Decision on NM/IC order; Governor Signs Renewable Energy/NM Legislation
Friday, May 8th, 2009COLORADO – On April 20th, an Administrative Law Judge for the Colorado PUC released a recommended decision modifying rules related to the state’s Renewable Energy Standard (RES). If ruled upon by the Commission, these rules would move Colorado further towards best practices in net metering and interconnection. These rules: 1. Clarify that third-party ownership is ... Read More
Virginia Legislature Enacts Several Bills Pertaining to NM/IC
Friday, May 8th, 2009VIRGINIA – On April 8, the Virginia legislature and Governor Kaine enacted several bills pertaining to net metering and interconnection: HB 2155 retains system size caps for net metering but adds a clause to allow utilities to approve a higher capacity limit if they choose to do so. The bill also permits customers that are ... Read More
