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© Copyright 2013 Clean Energy Collective ® 1
Community Solar Power Overview
Prepared For: Talking Green
member owned. nature operated.
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®Agenda
• Current Energy Challenges• Advantages of Community Solar Arrays• Who is Clean Energy Collective (CEC)?• How It Works• Summary
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®Current Energy Challenges
• Rising energy prices• Increasing Environmental Awareness• Many obstacles to going solar may exist– Aesthetics– Roof design and orientation– Maintenance– Price– Building lessee
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®The Solution - Community Solar with the CEC
Tom & Tina Smith
Colorado Mountain CollegeAlpine Bank
The Jones FamilyRoutt County
SOLAR POWER Reinvented
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®Advantages of Community Solar
• Energy Savings– Monthly electric bill credits
– Power credit rate that protects against inflation
– Tax savings from depreciation expense (commercial customers)
– Short payback period of initial investment
– With financing, can acquire with little money down and still achieve immediate savings
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®Advantages of Community Solar
• Offsite Solar Benefits– Anyone can participate, regardless of roof design,
direction, shading, etc.
– Allows lessees and lessors to participate – anyone who pays a utility bill.
– No aesthetic or structural integrity issues
– Comprehensive operations and maintenance program included
– Lower costs from economies of scale
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®Advantages of Community Solar
• Flexibility– Bill credit can easily be transferred to any meter on the
utility’s network.
– Can be sold to another user if owner moves outside of the area, or has a reduced energy need.
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®About CEC
• Clean Energy Collective (CEC) was founded in 2009
• CEC provides easy access to locally produced solar energy
• We pioneered country’s first “community-owned solar arrays”
• Over 90 power producing solar systems online or under development, representing 160MW of capacity
• Currently serving customers of 25 utilities in 11 states
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®How Does it Work?
• YVEA Community Solar Array – 577kW of clean power capacity
• Clean Solar Power is sold to YVEA under a 25-year agreement with the option to extend the program
• Any YVEA residential or commercial customer can purchase panels in the YVEA community solar power array
• Customers receive monthly electric bill credits on their YVEA bill
• CEC maintains the community solar array for optimal performance and savings
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®How Does it Work?
• Array located on City of Craig land
• Approximately 4 acres
• Panel type: primarily 305-watt Jinko Solar modules
• Panel #: approx. 2,000
• Price: $2.56/watt
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®How It Works
• Monthly Bill Credits– YVEA charges Customer for the actual energy usage under
its prevailing tariff rates.
– YVEA credits Customer for the amount of energy produced by its portion of the solar array at the program’s credit rate.
– Initial credit rate is $.10/kwh, higher than the retail rate charged, and will rise with the retail rate once the retail rate equals the credit rate.
– Excess credits are rolled over and applied to future electric bills.
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®How It Works
• Operations & Maintenance (O&M) Trust– CEC is responsible for the ongoing operations and maintenance
of the solar array.
– To ensure that maintenance is provided over the life of the array, CEC establishes a separate O&M Trust and Trust account.
– The Trust holds all of rights to the PPA, lease, insurance and manufacturers warranties
– The Trust account holds the funds necessary to pay for the maintenance, insurance, property taxes and lease costs.
– The Trust account is funded with an initial contribution by CEC and ongoing contributions from the production of the array.
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®Summary
• Lock in low energy costs for a long time (50 years)
• No need to install anything on customer premise
• Professionally Maintained
• Rebates, Discounts and Credits are instantly included in purchase price
• Optimal Production & Longer Life
• Transferable to Other YVEA Utility Customers
• If customers move within YVEA service area, the credits move with them
• Everyone can OWN clean energy and save money!