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Designing PV Incentive Programs to Promote Performance - A Review of Current Practice
Galen Barbose, Ryan Wiser, and Mark Bolinger, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. October 2006.
This CESA-LBNL case study examines the approaches used to encourage PV system performance - including, but not limited to, performance-based incentives (PBIs) - used by 32 prominent PV incentive programs in the U.S. The report provides a point of reference for assessing the current state of the art, and to inform program design efforts going forward. The report examines the approaches to encouraging PV system performance – including, but not limited to, PBIs – used by 32 prominent PV incentive programs in the U.S. (see Table 1). It focuses specifically on programs that offer an explicit subsidy payment for customer-sited PV installations. PV support programs that offer other forms of financial support or that function primarily as a mechanism for purchasing renewable energy credits (RECs) through energy production-based payments are outside the scope of our review. The information presented is derived primarily from publicly available sources, including program websites and guidebooks.
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Source: Clean Energy States Alliance