Public Power - July/August 2008 - (Page 28) The Lennar Homes subdivision in Elk Grove, Calif., is part of SMUD’s SolarSmart homes initiative. Photo courtesy of SMUD Sacramento’s SOLAR SHARES BY BEN TANSEY TheUtility District in Sacramento Municipal SMUD’s service territory. Like most California California has been pushing “Any SMUD customer can be a solar utilities, SMUD offers inthe solar envelope for centives to purchase and years. “We are constantly energy owner regardless of where install PV equipment. Reslooking for new business they live and without committing idential, commercial and models to help build the industrial customers can market for solar power,” thousands of dollars to buy their own opt to buy down the initial said Jon Bertolino, superincost of the investment or tendent of renewable PV panels.” sign up for a performancegeneration. based incentive under a SMUD has had a solar five-year or 10-year term. Both propricing program since 1997 and adopted including six utility-scale arrays totaling a renewable portfolio standard before 3.5 MW and a handful of projects sized grams are equal in monetary value, the state mandate. It beat its 12 percent over 100 kW that total 1 MW. The util- although the up-front incentive is more 2006 RPS by almost 1 percent. ity also operates a smattering of popular. The utility has also worked with SMUD, the sixth largest public installations of less than 100 kW each, every city in the county to waive tempower utility in the country with spread out on rooftops, parking struc- porarily solar installation permit fees and 590,000 customers and a July 2006 peak tures, airports and customer businesses. speed up the approval process. This year, the utility introduced Caliof 3,300 MW, owns and operates 5 MW Another 6 MW of customer-owned, of grid-connected photovoltaic systems, grid-connected projects also exist in fornia’s first program aimed at helping 28 JULY-AUGUST 2008 PUBLIC POWER
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