I prolly still have some of the paperwork around, with the tax records. I'll show Bummer when he comes to see if my panels exist.
There was a federal tax credit (limited to $2K back then), some of which I carried over to the next year. California has a rebate program, funded by consumers. IIRC, I got $2.60/watt
In January 2004, Governor Schwarzenegger set in motion the plan that would eventually become the CSI, through his evocatively named “Million Solar Roofs Initiative.” The California Public Utilities Commission’s January 12, 2006 rulemaking implemented key elements of this original vision and created the CSI, providing the assurance of incentives over 10 years, at a revenue cost of approximately $3 billion per year.
The incentives are implemented as a rebate in dollars per installed watt, paid for by an electricity ratepayer surcharge. They can be applied to residential, commercial, industrial, or even government installations, but not to central generation solar (solar thermal plants, for example). Importantly, the incentives are designed to be progressively phased out over the 10-year policy lifespan, corresponding to an expected decline in the cost of solar PV technology due to learning-by-doing, as explained below—a key element of the justification in Sacramento for the solar incentives.
"Personally, I think you're totally making shit up."
That's cuz you're living in a world made up by Faux. |
