Implementing solar financial incentives: the experience of selected state programs

Journal Article · Sun Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 1979 · Sol. Law Rep.; (United States)

OSTI ID:6085201

Ashworth, J H

The success of solar incentive programs depends not only on their size and scope, but upon the way they are implemented. The recent experience with solar financial incentives in six states - California, New Mexico, Arizona, Oregon, Maine, and Massachusetts - is analyzed with a focus on the choice of a rulemaking agency, development of eligibility guidelines, and the relationship between the rulemaking and administering agencies, and discloses that some problems exist in most of the case study states, while some predicted difficulties were not found to exist in any of the states. Tentative conclusions are that eligibility criteria are often not specified in enabling laws, thereby leaving the rulemaking agency with the responsibility for determining eligibility. However, the choice of a rulemaking agency is not necessarily crucial to the final shape of the criteria. Success of incentives can depend on the implementation methods used. Smaller states may find it easier to innovate. The author also finds that the assumption that state implementing agencies resist innovative programs is not completely accurate, so long as program guidelines are clear and precise. 59 references.

• DOE Contract Number: EG-77-C-01-4042
• OSTI ID: 6085201
• Journal Information: Sol. Law Rep.; (United States), Journal Name: Sol. Law Rep.; (United States) Vol. 1:2; ISSN SLRED
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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ENERGY
ENERGY SOURCES
FINANCIAL INCENTIVES
IMPLEMENTATION
LEGAL ASPECTS
REGULATIONS
RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
SOLAR ENERGY
STATE GOVERNMENT