Solar power in Connecticut
Solar power in Connecticut makes Connecticut the second state in the country to reach grid parity, after Hawaii, due to the high average cost of electricity.[1]
CT Solar Lease was a program to install solar panels at $0 upfront cost, and a fixed lease price for 15 years, with an option to extend the lease for 5 years at a reduced cost. CT Solar Lease owns and sells the RECs generated by the system, but turns over all but $15/REC plus 100% of the sale over $30 or 50% of the sale of the REC up to $30/REC to the homeowner in a Solar Dividends account for maintenance and to allow the purchase of the system at the end of the lease. RECs have been selling for from $18 to $24 each. Applications ended August 19, 2011.[2]
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Regulations [edit]
Connecticut's RPS requires 7% of power in the state will be from renewable resources by 2010, and 23% by 2020.[3] A bill passed in 2011 requires incentives that will produce at least 30 MW of new residential PV installed by the end of 2022.[4] Net metering is available for all up to 2 MW sites, and is reconciled annually at either the avoided cost or the time of use/generation rate, which is higher but requires TOU metering.[5]
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Potential generation [edit]
The average insolation in Connecticut is about 4 sun hours per day, and ranges from less than 2 in the winter to over 5 in the summer.[6]
Connecticut electricity consumption in 2005 was 33,095 million kWh.[7]
Installed capacity [edit]
| Connecticut Grid-Connected PV Capacity (MW)[8] | ||||||||||||
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| Year | Capacity | Installed | % Change | |||||||||
| 2008 | 8.8 | 6.0 | 214% | |||||||||
| 2009 | 19.7 | 10.9 | 124% | |||||||||
| 2010 | 24.6 | 4.9 | 25% | |||||||||
| 2011 | 31.1 | 4.5 | 26% | |||||||||
See also [edit]
References [edit]
- ^ Exhibit 3
- ^ CT Solar Lease
- ^ Renewable Energy
- ^ Brief Summary of SB 1243
- ^ Financial Incentives
- ^ Solar Insolation Levels In North America
- ^ Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (2008-06-25). "Electric Power and Renewable Energy in Connecticut". United States Department of Energy. Retrieved 2012-04-13.
- ^ Sherwood, Larry (July 2010). "U.S. Solar Market Trends 2009". Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC). Retrieved 2010-07-28.
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