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Community Solar Iowa Economic DevelopmentCommunity Efficient and Renewable Energy Workshop
Warren McKenna -- Farmers Electric Cooperative
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FEC - The Vision – 25x25
Energy Tracking and Monitoring (3%)Energy Efficiency and Conservation (7%)
Renewable Energy (15% energy) (30%/PD)
• Site Based – Customer owned (400 KW)
• Community Solar / Solar Garden (100 KW)
• Solar Farm – Cooperative Ownership (1 MW)
25% reduction of outside energy consumption by 2025
“Inside out” <> “Outside in” view of sustainability
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A Solar Gardenis a community shared solar array(s) with grid-connected subscriberswhere power is credited to your electric bill, as if the panels were on your own property.
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Community Solar is growing fast
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Virtual Metering – Credit directly on the subscribers
bill for subscriber’s ownership portion of the array
OthersSubscription model – HOA’s, renters,
affordable housing, shaded locations, and historic
districts
Distributed Generation – Rooftop or
ground mount system connects to local power lines or
substations.
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Solar Gardeners
Community organizer and project manager
Find host sites and subscribers for solar gardens and community supported energy
Organize for policy – Community and Utility
Work with local non-profits, apply for grants
Getting Started
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Host Sites
• Near 3-Phase distribution line, transformer, or substation
• About 100-150 kilowatts (kW) per acre
• Industrial sites
• Retired farmland
• Reclaimed landfills, buffer zones, and parks
• Parking lots, storage
• Large roofs
• Water Treatment plants
• Airports
Where to put it…
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Cooperatives
Florida Keys Electric Cooperative – 120 kW
Utility owned, subscriber lease panels
Delta Montrose Electric Association (CO) – 20 kW
Subscribers purchase shares, minimum $10
Holy Cross Energy (CO) – 900 kW
Third party owned, subscribers own modules
Cooperative Board approval needed
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Municipal Utilities'
Ellensburg (WA) – 100 kW
Utility managed, subscribers lease panels
Sacramento (CA) – 1 MW
Utility owned, subscribers buy blocks of power
Colorado Springs (CO) – 4 gardens, 500 kW each
Third party owned, subscriber’s buy modules
Utility Board or City Council approval
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Investor Owned Utilities
XCEL Energy (CO, MN) 2 MW to 18 MW
Projects chosen FCFS
Third party managed by subscriber organization
Ownership, lease, or PPA
Dominion Power (VA) – 33 MW owned by utility, with 3 MW
private carv-out
State legislation and Utility Commission rulemaking
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Subscribers
• Must be within
• service territory
• same county
• same utility
• Residential – affluent and moderate income
• Local Business and Industry
• Farmers
• Non-profits, libraries, schools, hospitals, churches
• Municipal and county buildings
Anyone who is grid connected
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Subscriber Owned Panels
• Individual ownership of panels
• Cost – range from $350 - $ 500 per module about $ 1000/kW
• Up front payment or loan
• Pay-back time 10 to 15 years
• Low income assignment/allocation
• Credit on power bill at net-metering or PPA rate
Community Supported Energy
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Obstacles
• Lack of access to federal tax incentives
• Securities regulation
• Subscription or lease versus ownership shares
• Ground-mount versus rooftop solar installations
• Utility participation, interconnection, metering
• Overpriced installation – Gold plating
• Zoning, permitting, environmental approvals
High potential but slow growth
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• All modules are socialized under a single meter
• 1 kWhr / number of modules = Allocation Factor
• 1/112 = .00892
• .00892 x kWhrs x ModQty = -kWh
• -kWh x Rate = Credit
• averages $3/mnth/mod
Production Credits (FEC model)kWhrs to $ and measurement, monitoring, billing
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1. Easy way to invest
2. Concern about environment
3. Quick payback
4. Keep payments in community
FEC Customer SurveyDecision to purchase
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Introduced at 20 panels for $ 250 each and they sold in 2 days
We kept a list and double panel offering to 40
Increased the price to around $ 400 and offered discount to area Churches.
Sold offering in first week.
Currently have 112 modules and 90 participants
Recently offered another row of 40 modules
Cooperative is working on a 500 kW to 1 MW Solar Farm
Participation @ FECVery popular program!
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IMS Community Solar Project – 50 KW
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Solar Energy Paradigm Shift
FERC Chair Jon Wellinghoff:
Solar ‘Is Going to Overtake Everything’
Geothermal, wind, and other resources will supplement solar, Wellinghoff said.
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AEE Dealer Conference in AZ -- 1st annual – 2007
Greensburg Greentown in KS, -- Rebuild after Tornado
RMI and SEI in CO, “Small is Profitable” distributed model
Make It Right in LA, -- New Orleans housing
Sierra Club Iowa and Heinrich Boll Stiftung, Iowa Speaking Tour • German Cooperatives, Dr. Andreas Wieg, Michael Diestel
Bakken Fields in ND – The End of Easy Oil
Germany, -- 25x25 week long tour from Frankfurt to Berlin• RE Site visits to the Reichstag for politics and policy
SOLAR 2013 – Baltimore MD• Lonnie Gamble, Maharishi Sustainable Living Center, Fairfield IA
State Agriculture and Rural Leaders• Legislative Ag Chairs Summit XII | Vancouver, British Columbia
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Iowa Solar Energy Trade Association
Networking Please consider joining ISETATours
Training
Newsletter
Policy
IowaSETA.org
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References and Resources
http://www.feckalona.com
http://communitypowernetwork.com/
http://www.solargardens.org/
A Guide to Community Share Solar:
Utility, Private, and Nonprofit Project Development
SunShot U.S. Department of Energy
Community Solar Power - Obstacles and Opportunities
John Farrell, www.newrules.org
THANK YOU!