CALSEIA Annual Meeting
CALSEIA Invites you to attend:
Intersolar North America Exhibitor Reception and CALSEIA’s First Annual Solar Summerfest Party
Benefiting California’s Solar Industry. View the invitation here: univeral_invite-7-1-10
Location: CityView, Metreon Rooftop 101 4th Street, San Francisco
Tickets: $75 per person ($100 at the door)
To purchase tickets please use the tickets sales form: calseia-10-pack-7-1-10
This event will attract Intersolar North America’s exhibitors [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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>

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. [...]

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 [...]