California Solar Initiative Program Forum Hosted by SCE Oct. 28, 2009

California Solar Initiative 2 Welcome Bob Botkin, SCE

California Solar Initiative 3 California Solar Statistics & Weekly Data Availability Molly Sterkel, CPUC

California Solar Initiative 4 Q CSI reaches quarter gigawatt milestone Program demand remains strong August was a peak month

California Solar Initiative 5 Monthly Received

California Solar Initiative 6 Steady Increase in Demand Volume

California Solar Initiative 7 Capacity

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California Solar Initiative 9 Incentive $’s

California Solar Initiative 10 More Than 50,000 Solar Interconnections PG&ESCESDG&ETotal NEM SOLAR Customer- Generators [1] [1] 33,642 customers 11,423 customers7,404 customers 52,469 customers Non-NEM SOLAR Customer- Generators 206 customers39 customers0 customers245 customers Total SOLAR Customer- Generators 33,848 customers11,462 customers7,404 customers52,714 customers NEM SOLAR Customer- Generators, rated generating capacity (MW) 276 MW132 MW58 MW466 MW Non-NEM SOLAR Customer- Generators, rated generating capacity (MW) 23 MW20 MW0 MW43 MW Total SOLAR Customer- Generators, rated generating capacity (MW) 299 MW152 MW58 MW509 MW MW remaining in CSI general market program (not yet installed) 622 MW715 MW156 MW1,493 MW Source: CPUC data request to PG&E, SCE, SDG&E, data through September 30, Note: MW figures are all reported based on the CEC-AC rating of solar systems.

California Solar Initiative 11 Solar Interconnections by Year *Prior to 2001, there were 259 systems, representing 1.2 MW installed **2009 data through 9/30/09 only.

California Solar Initiative 12 Q3 Updates on M&O/M&E Marketing and Outreach (M&O) New fact sheets, 2010 Go Solar California! calendar New Web site by end of year Measurement and Evaluation (M&E) Cost-Benefit Study, NEM C/B Public workshop on Nov. 20th Process Evaluation Impact Evaluation Other evaluation studies coming in Q4

California Solar Initiative 13 Other CSI Q Highlights The CSI Single-family Affordable Solar Homes (SASH) program saw applications remain strong, and more residences have been identified as potentially program-eligible. The CSI Multifamily Affordable Solar Housing (MASH) applications are robust 139 applications totaling 7.13 MW of solar power within the program’s first year. The CSI Research Development, Demonstration and Deployment (RD&D) Program issued its first grant-funding solicitation, seeking breakthrough technologies in PV integration with the transmission and distribution system. Second solicitation issued in October, bids due in January 2010 Nov. 18 th – Program Strategy Meeting The Solar Water Heating Pilot Program (SWHPP) continues steady in San Diego CPUC issued a Staff Proposal in July outlining a statewide CSI-Thermal Program, that would offer solar water heating incentives to both electric and gas customers, statewide in 2010.

California Solar Initiative 14 PowerClerk Andrew Yip, PG&E

California Solar Initiative 15 PowerClerk Topics Review Current Submittal Process Future Paperless Submittal Process Future PowerClerk Features Electronic Document Attachment New Reservation Request Signature Page Data Upload Removal of Excel Version of Forms Q&A 15

California Solar Initiative 16 Review Current Submittal Process 16 PowerClerkExcel 1. Fill-out CSI forms 2. Prepare supporting documentation 3. Mail documentation 4. Program Administrators receives application 5. Program Administrator Begins Review 5. Program Administrator Enters Application into PowerClerk 6. Program Administrator Begins Review Opportunities for improvement

California Solar Initiative 17 Future Paperless Submittal Process 17 PowerClerkExcel 1. Fill-out CSI forms 2. Prepare supporting documentation 3. Mail documentation 4. Program Administrators receives application 5. Program Administrator Begins Review 5. Program Administrator Enters Application into PowerClerk 6. Program Administrator Begins Review Removal of Excel Forms January 2010

California Solar Initiative 18 Future Process Flow w/Document Attachment

California Solar Initiative 19 PowerClerk Document Attachment Preview Sample Paperwork Screenshot

California Solar Initiative 20 PowerClerk Document Attachment Preview Sample Coversheet for Mailing Documents

California Solar Initiative 21 New Reservation Request Signature Page Purpose Provide Solar Contractors a readily available sheet to bring on visits to eliminate an extra visit Description Contains customer, system, and site information that requires the Host Customer and System Owner to sign How it will be used Reservation Request Signature Page is signed PowerClerk Reservation Request Application is completed Reservation Request Signature Page and other required documents is submitted via PowerClerk Electronic Attachment or postal mail

California Solar Initiative 22 Why New Paperless Submittal Process? Reduces Carbon Footprint of the program PDFs will allow fewer documents to be printed Eliminates shipping documents from one location to another -> Lowers Fuel Consumption Create efficiencies and reduce costs Further improves turnaround time Eliminate postage cost Reduce administrative costs for preparing mail Eliminate duplicate data entry from Excel forms 22

California Solar Initiative 23 PowerClerk Data Upload Feature What is it? Allows external software programs to upload application data to populate CSI Reservation Request Forms If you answer yes to the question below, this may pertain to you Do you enter information for your solar installations in a separate software program outside of PowerClerk? Purpose Uploads the data from your software program into PowerClerk Eliminates duplicate entry of data already stored somewhere else Is it mandatory? No, this is completely voluntary 23

California Solar Initiative 24 PowerClerk Data Upload Feature What is currently available? API Document Draft XML Schema Test Environment for API available Sept.15 How do I get started? Have your programmer contact your Program Administrator PG&E – Robert Chan, CCSE – Katrina Perez, SCE – 24

California Solar Initiative 25 Removal of Excel Version of Forms When Tentatively January 2010 Purpose Simplify application process by having a single starting point with PowerClerk PowerClerk will have the most up to date forms

California Solar Initiative 26 Important Dates Document Attachment Feature Testing in November 2009 Estimated launch early December Data Upload Feature Test environment currently available for software developers Removal of Excel-Based Forms Tentatively January 2010

California Solar Initiative 27 What Comprises $/Watt Project Costs? Molly Sterkel, CPUC Tim Treadwell, CCSE

California Solar Initiative 28 Average Solar System Costs, Based on Project Reservation Date PV Systems Under 10 kW PV Systems over 10 kW Average Cost $/watt % decline since Q Average Cost $/watt % decline since Q Q3 2008$9.92$9.28 Q4 2008$ %$ % Q1 2009$ %$ % Q2 2009$ %$ % Q3 2009$ %$ %

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California Solar Initiative 32 Avg. $/W#MW Solar City$ REC Solar$ Akeena Solar$ The Top 1-3 contractors by completed volume account for 4909 projects, which is 24.9% of a total of 19,728 projects.

California Solar Initiative 33 Avg. $/W#MW Borrego Solar$ SPG Solar$ REgrid Power$ The Top 4-6 contractors by completed volume account for 1538 projects, which is 7.8% of a total of 19,728 projects.

California Solar Initiative 34 <=10kW, Grouped by Reservation Request Review Date

California Solar Initiative 35 Completed projects 10kW and Under

California Solar Initiative 36 California Legislative Update on Key Solar Bills Curtis Seymour, CPUC

California Solar Initiative 37 Legislative Update 2009 California Solar Legislation Bill (Author)TopicSummary Assembly Bills AB 920 (Wiggins) Net Surplus Compensation Program under Net Energy Metering (NEM) AB 920 allows NEM customers to sell any net excess electricity generated over the course of 12 months to their electric utility at a rate to be determined by the CPUC. AB 1031 (Blumenfeld) Local Government Renewable Self Generation - program expansion This bill includes college campuses in the definition of “local government” for the Local Government Renewable Self Generation program originally authorized by AB 2466 (Laird, 2008). That program allows local governments to generate renewable energy at one facility and receive credits for excess generation at other facilities. AB 1551 (Fuentes) Eligibility for CSI SASH and MASH This bill revises and expands the definition of “low- income residential housing” for the purposes of the California Solar Initiative's MASH and SASH programs.

California Solar Initiative 38 Legislative Update (cont’d.) 2009 California Solar Legislation Bill (Author)TopicSummary Senate Bills SB 32 (Negrete- McLeod) Small Renewables Feed- in-Tariff - program expansion Increases the eligible system size for the Small Renewables Feed-in-Tariff program originally established by AB 1969 (Yee, 2006) from 1.5 MW to 3 MW. This bill also requires the CPUC to adjust the price of this tariff based on environmental attributes, and also increases the statewide program cap from 500 MW to 750 MW. SB 412 (Kehoe) Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP) – program expansion Provides the CPUC authority to include new eligible distributed energy resources in SGIP based on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions. The bill also extends SGIP through Jan. 1, 2016.

California Solar Initiative 39 Q&A CPUC, All Program Administrators

California Solar Initiative 40 Closing Remarks Bob Botkin, SCE