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Title |
Type | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portland's Residential Solar Permitting Guide |
Sample Government Documents |
December 2010 |
This program guide outlines the application and review procedures for obtaining the necessary permit(s) to install a solar energy system for a new or existing residential building. The guide also describes what system siting or design elements may trigger the need for additional plan review. |
| Portland, Oregon: Solar in Action |
Case Studies |
October 2011 |
This brochure provides an overview of the challenges and successes of Portland, OR, a 2007 Solar America City awardee, on the path toward becoming a solar-powered community. Accomplishments, case studies, key lessons learned, and local resource information are given. |
| Power Purchase Agreement Checklist for State and Local Governments |
Sample Government Documents |
October 2009 |
This fact sheet addresses the financial, logistical, and legal questions relevant to implementing PPAs for PV installations. |
| Powering Our Future Solar Salt Lake Implementation Plan |
How-To Guides |
October 2010 |
Utah has tremendous distributed solar resource potential that can (and does) provide communities with significant benefits: local jobs, local energy sources, economic development, price stability, risk mitigation, reduced emissions, and greater energy security. |
| Powering Your Community With Solar: Overcoming Market and Implementation Barriers (Fact Sheet) |
Fact Sheets |
June 2012 |
This document introduces the Energy Department's new Solarize Guidebook: A Community Guide to Collective Purchasing of Residential PV Systems. |
| Problems and Solutions: Training Disaster Organizations of the Use of PV |
Technical Reports |
June 2003 |
Experience has shown that photovoltaic systems can be used effectively to support electrical power during emergencies. |
| Profiles in Regional Solar Planning: A Handbook and Resource Guide |
Technical Reports |
August 2012 |
The Guide is intended to provide guidance specifically to regional planning organizations on the unique roles they can play to move solar energy deployment forward in their regions. |
| PV Cost Convergence Calculator |
Tools |
May 2011 |
This PV Cost Convergence Calculator provides a big-picture look at the city-by-city timing of cost convergence for PV energy from 2000 to 2020. |
| PV Solar Site Assessment (Milwaukee high school) |
Case Studies |
May 2009 |
The purpose of this assessment is to provide site-specific information on how a solar electric (also referred to as a photovoltaic, or PV) system would perform at your location, including information on estimated physical size, rated output, energy production, costs, financial incentives and moun |
| PV vs. Solar Water Heating - Simple Solar Payback |
Articles |
October 2008 |
Solar energy systems hang their hats on payback. Financial payback is as tangible as money in your bank account, while other types of payback—like environmental externalities—are not usually calculated in dollars. |