Implementation of state solar incentives: a preliminary assessment

Technical Report · Mon Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1979

OSTI ID:6203572

Ashworth, J; Green, B; Pollock, P; Odland, R; Saltonstall, R; Perelman, L J

This paper reports the findings of a six-month pilot project designed to gather, analyze, and disseminate information on the operation of state incentives for solar energy. The primary purpose of this report is to provide timely and practical information on the lessons learned from and the problems encountered to date in state incentive programs for solar energy diffusion, adoption, and commercialization. The secondary intent of this SERI program is to identify those research areas within the broad spectrum of implementation experience which require more-extensive future examination to improve the effectiveness of state solar energy incentive programs. The focus of this study is the implementation of official state solar energy incentives programs. Questions of incentive design and program effectiveness are addressed in certain portions of the text, but the bulk of the research effort is directed toward examining how laws and legislative mandates have been transformed into rules, regulations, eligibility criteria, standards, comprehensive land-use plans, grants, tax deductions, and demonstration projects. Most of the programs discussed will be official governmental actions, although the roles of private groups, advisory councils, and universities are addressed. Programs were examined in Arizona, California, Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico, and Oregon. (MCW)

• Research Organization: Solar Energy Research Inst., Golden, CO (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: EG-77-C-01-4042
• OSTI ID: 6203572
• Report Number(s): SERI/TR-51-159
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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