Got my CPS PV solar rebate approved

[CosmicCowboy]

It's the electric utility blocking customers from investing in solar power, to preserve/protect the utility's dominant, often monopolistic position over its captive market.

dumbass

They do nothing to prevent you from going solar off the grid.

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dumbass

They do nothing to prevent you from going solar off the grid.

dumbass kicker, going off grid takes many $Ks in batteries

[CosmicCowboy]

dumbass kicker, going off grid takes many $Ks in batteries

So the fact that off grid solar isn't economically feasible isn't CPS's fault?

[Wild Cobra]

Crybaby boo just wants his whole life to be subsidized.

Interesting:

https://www.cpsenergy.com/content/da...ling_facts.pdf

Is that example right?

Do you guys still only pay $0.0668 per kWh plus adjustments? Your rates are less than mine, and I have hydro-power. Mine is $0.065 / kWh plus numerous added adjustments totaling $0.0372 /kWh, plus $10.00/mo instead of $8.50, and taxes also.

Anyway, as poo boo points out, the selling price back to CPS in the example is only $0.0165 / kWh once you have a net excess of power. Nothing new though since that is a 2012 example! Three years!

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red state vs blue state

Solar Jobs Rivalry – MD vs. VA




http://www.altenergymag.com/article/...m_medium=email

Repug bubba red states just suck totally

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Local Governments Win Solar at 9 Cents per Kilowatt-Hour With Collaborative Procurement

"I cannot tell you how exciting it is to be at another landfill," said Administrator Gina McCarthy of the U.S. EPA while at this week's announcement of the nation's largest "multi-agency collaborative procurement for solar power."

That procession of bureaucratic terms is actually a lot more exciting (and difficult to accomplish) than it sounds.

Although government agencies have collaborated on the procurement of goods to leverage economies of scale in the past, that type of purchase process has never been applied to energy services, said Caroline Judy, acting director of the Alameda County GSA, the lead agency in R-REP (Regional Renewable Energy Procurement Project), a syndicate of governmental agencies across four counties and 19 agencies in the East Bay and Silicon Valley regions of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Led by Alameda County, with help from Joint Venture Silicon Valley and Optony, a solar consultancy, R-REP put together a bid package for renewable power that provides lower prices than the individual parties could have obtained.

Judy said, "We have pricing at utility scale," claiming PPA prices of 8 cents to 9 cents per kilowatt-hour on the aggregate projects, which is "15 percent to 47 percent below equivalent prior procurements."

There are 186 regional government facilities getting distributed PV installed on the ground, rooftops, and on parking structures for a total of 31 megawatts of solar power. The projects range from 15-kilowatt fire station rooftops, to 230-kilowatt carport installations at libraries and police stations, to a 6.6-megawatt project on the West Winton Landfill in Hayward, the largest project in the R-REP portfolio.

http://www.greentechmedia.com/articl...paign=GTMDaily

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I can't find it now, but I read where CPS buys centralized solar from OCI for $0.14/KwH. CPS certainly doesn't buy from OCI at $0.0165

still can't find it.

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CPS Energy's high cost of secrecy

Whatever the merits of CPS Energy's deal with OCI Solar Power, and we believe there are many, the public is paying a premium in secrecy.

We were reminded of this in a recent story by the San Antonio Express-News' Nolan Hicks, who reported CPS Energy is paying about 11 cents per kilowatt-hour for solar power.

But CPS Energy will not confirm that figure. While owned by the city, it views itself as a separate en y.

In July 2012, CPS Energy inked a 25-year contract with OCI Solar Power for five plants that will produce a total of 400 megawatts of solar energy. OCI Solar requested a non-disclosure agreement to protect its negotiating position for future projects. Citing that agreement, CPS Energy has refused to provide any insight into how that price was set, or how the contract was structured.

The utility's president and chief executive, Doyle Beneby, has declined interview requests. On costs, CPS Energy officials have cited the amount and intensity of sunshine in the region, and costs associated with land and technology.

We have supported the OCI Solar deal in the past and continue to because it promises cleaner energy, diversity in electricity sources and economic development. The project comes with 800 jobs to the utility's service area.

But that doesn't justify cutting out the public for such a significant deal. CPS Energy is beholden to the public, not OCI Solar.

Such secrecy around the utility's dealings, and resistance to questions, creates the opposite impression.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/...cy-4673087.php

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Although SA and Austin electric utilities are municipally owned, they aren't in any way pro-citizen progressive for rooftop solar
Solar Parity Coming Faster Than Expected

http://cleantechnica.com/2015/05/22/solar-parity-coming-faster-expected/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaig n=Feed%3A+IM-cleantechnica+%28CleanTechnica%29

[Wild Cobra]

Although SA and Austin electric utilities are municipally owned, they aren't in any way pro-citizen progressive for rooftop solar
Solar Parity Coming Faster Than Expected

http://cleantechnica.com/2015/05/22/solar-parity-coming-faster-expected/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaig n=Feed%3A+IM-cleantechnica+%28CleanTechnica%29

I don't know what to say about your cradle to grave en lement/subsidy at ude.

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I don't know what to say about your cradle to grave en lement/subsidy at ude.

you'll think of something completely irrelevant, exposing how ing wrong you always are.

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Solar twice as expensive in US as in Germany





The reasons behind unnecessarily expensive PV in the US are interesting, and I (along with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) have written about them before. In a nuts , the installation process in the US is laden with red tape, making a residential PV array as complicated as an infrastructure project – whereas solar rooftops in Germany are as uncomplicated for homeowners as any other roof work on your own home.

http://energytransition.de/2015/05/solar-twice-as-expensive-in-us-as-in-germany/

Germany is HIGH-COST, HEAVILY REGULATED, TOP EXPORTING SOCIAL DEMOCRACY.

[CosmicCowboy]

Your chart is ed, Germany killed the solar subsidies.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a...ubsidies_.html

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Your chart is ed, Germany killed the solar subsidies.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a...ubsidies_.html

for the chart to be ed it would have to extend through end of 2014, so prove from the end of 2013 that solar price in Germany has jumped up, to or above USA price

Here's a more up to date report, and Germany's solar is still a lot cheaper than USA's.

http://www.seia.org/research-resourc...ny-closer-look

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Your chart is ed, Germany killed the solar subsidies.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a...ubsidies_.html

Bjørn Lomborg is an adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School and directs the Copenhagen Consensus Center. He is the author of

The Skeptical Environmentalist,

Cool It, and most recently

How Much Have Global Problems Cost the World?

http://www.slate.com/authors.bjrn_lomborg.html

[CosmicCowboy]

for the chart to be ed it would have to extend through end of 2014, so prove from the end of 2013 that solar price in Germany has jumped up, to or above USA price

Here's a more up to date report, and Germany's solar is still a lot cheaper than USA's.

http://www.seia.org/research-resourc...ny-closer-look

Germans pay 3X what the US pays per KWH.

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Germans pay 3X what the US pays per KWH.

coal/utility power is about $0.30/KwH, which provides the HUGE incentive to install solar, AND get a rapid payback.

[CosmicCowboy]

So Boo...whats your excuse...why haven't you installed solar? Waiting till you can charge it with your Lone Star Card?

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So Boo...whats your excuse...why haven't you installed solar? Waiting till you can charge it with your Lone Star Card?

I'm putting up 12 x 320 watt SolarWorld panels + SolarEdge inverter now, CPS approval done, working on COSA permit.

3 x 2-axis trackers with 4 panels per tracker.

[CosmicCowboy]

pics or it didn't happen. Why are YOU getting the COSA permit?

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pics or it didn't happen. Why are YOU getting the COSA permit?

I'm not getting the permit. My solar installer is. I don't think anybody but authorized solar installer can obtain CPS/COSA permits.

[CosmicCowboy]

that is true

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World’s Cheapest Solar Power Lands In Austin, Texas — Under 4¢/kWh! (Sort Of)

Austin Energy, the city of Austin’s utility, recently put out data on solar project bids for the utility’s 600 MW procurement plan. To show how compe ive this landscape is, Khalil Shalabi, Austin Energy’s vice president of resource planning, noted that 7,976 MW worth of solar projects were bid in April in compe ion for this 600 MW.

But that only partly shows how compe ive things have gotten. 1,295 MW of those solar project bids came in below 4¢/kWh! (Talk about shattering records.)

http://cleantechnica.com/2015/07/02/...eanTechnica%29

I saw where CPS Energy is paying $0.14/KwH to OCI (3x more than Austin Energy's bids), but can't find it.

[Wild Cobra]

World’s Cheapest Solar Power Lands In Austin, Texas — Under 4¢/kWh! (Sort Of)

Austin Energy, the city of Austin’s utility, recently put out data on solar project bids for the utility’s 600 MW procurement plan. To show how compe ive this landscape is, Khalil Shalabi, Austin Energy’s vice president of resource planning, noted that 7,976 MW worth of solar projects were bid in April in compe ion for this 600 MW.

But that only partly shows how compe ive things have gotten. 1,295 MW of those solar project bids came in below 4¢/kWh! (Talk about shattering records.)

http://cleantechnica.com/2015/07/02/...eanTechnica%29

I saw where CPS Energy is paying $0.14/KwH to OCI (3x more than Austin Energy's bids), but can't find it.

I doubt the $0.0584 per kWh is accurate. I hope to be shown wrong, but I don't see that as a realistic selling price to also cover construction, maintenance, etc.

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I doubt the $0.0584 per kWh is accurate. I hope to be shown wrong, but I don't see that as a realistic selling price to also cover construction, maintenance, etc.

your blind ideology has a tough time facing hard reality