I gathered this information when I was trying to make a living selling residential solar systems. The job didn’t agree with me but this information is still valid. Check it out<\/p>\n
Internal Rate of Return tutorial http:\/\/hspm.sph.sc.edu\/COURSES\/ECON\/irr\/irr.html<\/a><\/p>\n Solar time of Use<\/a> (local copy) A paper about Electricity Rate Structures and the Economics of Solar PV: Could Mandatory Time-of-Use Rates Undermine California\u2019s Solar Photovoltaic Subsidies? – shown to Lee by his neighbor Oren Ahoobim<\/p>\n Under PURPA, utilities are required to purchase electricity from QFs at the utilities’ “avoided cost.” (11) The Federal government, in formulating regulations, often delegates implementation to the States. This occurred with PURPA, as the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) delegated the authority for the determination of avoided cost to the States. In several States including California, avoided cost purchase contracts were very favorable to non-utility generators. For example, between 1982 and 1988, Standard Offer 4 (SO4) contracts written in California allowed QFs to sell renewable energy under 15-to-30 year terms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Source<\/a><\/p>\n Additionally, the new law makes a credit available to those who add qualified solar panels, solar water heating equipment<\/strong>, or a fuel cell power plant to their homes in the United States. In general, a qualified fuel cell power plant converts a fuel into electricity using electrochemical means, has an electricity\u2014only generation efficiency of more than 30 percent and generates at least 0.5 kilowatts of electricity. Taxpayers are allowed one credit equal to 30 percent of the qualified investment in a solar panel up to a maximum credit of $2,000<\/strong>, and another equivalent credit for investing in a solar water heating system<\/strong>. No part of either system can be used to heat a pool or hot tub. … These items must be placed in service after Dec. 31, 2005 and before Jan. 1, 2008.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n 30% tax credit… $2,000 for a PV system and $2,000 for solar water heating<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n A very important tax form<\/strong>. Print the whole thing out and read.<\/p>\n There is mention of a credit for using solar illumination<\/p>\n ? Increased the energy percentage from 10 to 30% for solar property placed in service after December 31, 2005.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n There is mention of a credit for property that generates solar or geothermal power<\/p>\n For purposes of line 2, solar energy property is equipment that uses solar energy to: ? Generate electricity,? Heat or cool (or provide hot water for use in) a structure, or ? Provide solar process heat (but not to heat a swimming pool).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n solar energy property includes solar energy property as defined in the line 2 instructions and equipment which uses solar energy to illuminate the inside of a structure using fiber-optic distributed sunlight<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Source<\/a><\/p>\n\n
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