Lease and PPA Disclosure Requirements

CALSEIA receives inquiries from the public regarding leases and power purchase agreements (PPA). CALSEIA does not provide legal or tax advice – people should contact a legal or tax professional. Below are references to federal and state laws that may govern your specific lease or power purchase agreement. Note that the terms and conditions of leases or power purchase agreements may vary among the providers of these financial arrangements. Customers should become familiar with the terms ...

Feed In Tariff for California

SB 32, enacted in 2009, directs the CPUC to approve standard contracts and pricing for renewable energy generators (nicknamed a ‘Feed In Tariff”). The price for the contracts would be set based on the wholesale price of energy and the valuable attributes like reducing emissions, reducing the need for adding new transmission lines, and generating electricity during hours of peak demand.

Solar Water Heating Value

CALSEIA’s new analysis quantifies the value of solar water heating – calls for immediate implementation of the State’s Solar Water Heating Efficiency Act.  In 2007, Assembly Member Huffman authored AB 1470 to enact the Solar Water Heating Efficiency Act – signed into law in October 2007. This report is the first of its kind in valuing the attributes of solar water heating. This report calls attention to the fact that Solar Water Heating, for every forty ...

Solar Energy Markets – Electricity

CALSEIA prepared the diagram below to illustrate the various paths to market for solar electric generation. The dark line across the diagram denotes a boundary between projects that are on the customer-retail side of an electric meter and projects that are on the utility-wholesale side of an electric meter. (Retail is above the line, wholesale is below the line). CALSEIA is encouraging state policy to open the market for 'distributed solar generation.' This type of project ...

Emergency Response Guideline for PV

In 2007 and early 2008 CALSEIA worked with the California State Fire Marshal to develop an installation guideline to design and install PV systems so that fire crews have access on the roof to get to a roof ridge and to have space at the ridge to ventilate the building in the event this is necessary to perform a rescue. The link below will take you to the California State Fire Marhal's website. At that website you will find ...

How to link to CALSEIA

All CALSEIA members are required to link to the CALSEIA web site by including the exact HTML code on their main/index page: <A HREF="http://calseia.org" alt="solar energy"><B>California Solar Energy</B></A>

Solar Rights

A variety of laws have been enacted in California to help prevent restrictions that may prevent the installation of solar products in your community. There are also laws that address shade control, which can impact system performance. The laws currently in effect are quoted below. CALIFORNIA CODES CIVIL CODE 714. (a) Any covenant, restriction, or condition contained ...

About Solar

Due to concerns about future energy supplies and environmental concerns, California has made a significant commitment to transforming the energy markets to include significant amounts of solar energy generation. Some examples of the markets for solar include: utility scale generation distributed generation on-site generation Utility Scale Generation. Large projects that use solar thermal or photovoltaic systems that generate electricity which is fed into the State's transmission system Distributed Generation. Medium sized projects that use solar thermal or photovoltaic systems that ...

Gold Members

Solar Electric

Solar Electric Solar electric systems use a chemical reaction to sunlight to generate electricity. The panels that are used to create the electricity are called photovoltaic modules. The installations are commonly called PV systems. PV systems generate electricity during the day only and usually are generating their highest amount of electricity in the afternoon. PV systems do not generate electricity at night, even under a full moon. When it is cloudy, rainy, or if the modules ...