Lower Valley Energy will provide a $400+ rebate to our residential and commercial customers who install photovoltaic and/or solar water heater collectors in our service territory. Below are the qualifying guidelines for the rebate:
Must be started no earlier than
October 1, 2006.
Copies of
specification sheets and invoices must be provided to Lower Valley Energy.
This rebate may
be terminated or modified by Lower Valley Energy at any time. Only a member of
Lower Valley Energy will be eligible to apply for this rebate. System must be
installed within the Lower Valley Energy service territory.
Lower Valley
Energy will conduct inspections to verify the system is operational and in
service.
Solar Water
Heaters
Rebate for a
solar water heater collector is $400. A minimum of 31 square feet of evacuated
tubes must be installed. (Domestic hot water only.)
Solar water
heaters systems must be designed, installed, inspected and found to be in
substantial compliance with the most recent version of the “Bright Way to
Heat Water Program – General and Technical Specifications.”
(http://www.bpa.gov/energy/N/projects/brightway/pdf/Gen_Tech_Specs.pdf)
Solar
Photovoltaic (PV) Systems
Rebate for
photovoltaic panels is $400.00/KW. A minimum of 1 KW of photovoltaic panels
must be installed.
System must be
certified by the California Energy Commission (CEC).
(http://www.consumerenergycenter.org/erprebate/equipment.html)
System must be
installed by a licensed contractor or the purchaser, and must be installed to
the manufacture’s specifications and meet applicable electrical codes and
standards. Must be tied to the grid.
PV systems must
be listed by a nationally recognized testing laboratory as meeting the
requirements of the Underwriters Laboratory Standard 1703. Inverters must be
listed by a nationally recognized testing laboratory for safe operation.
Further, all grid-connected, inverter-based systems must meet the Institute of
Electrical and Electronic Engineers Standard 929-2000. (http://standards.ieee.org/reading/ieee/std_public/new_desc/powergen/withdrawn/929-2000.html)
The warranty
must cover the PV panel components of the generating system against breakdown
and degradation in electrical output of more than 20% from the originally rated
electrical output in the first 20 years. Other components of the generating
systems against breakdown and degradation for 5 Years, including the full cost
of repair or replacement of defective components or systems.
Please contact
Wid Ritchie, Energy Specialist at 307-885-6122 or at writchie@lvenergy.com.
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Estimated price
pf a 2KW PV system is $20,000 (LVE rebate would be $800).
Estimated
production of a 2KW system is 300 kwh a month on average.