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Some people from the Mayor’s office are hosting a meeting between the solar subsidy policy makers and local solar energy professionals tomorrow to help prepare for the next budget and finance committee meeting on May 7th (tentative).
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The important thing here is that hey mention that the subsidy would be a great way to stop having to build peaker plants, which is true.  This thing works, and it’s a double whammy.  There are dozens of people, personally, I know, where the extra $4000 from the subsidy would sweeten the pot enough for […]

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McGoldrick seems to think that the subsidy will only be used by a bunch of rich-fat-cat-monocle-and-top-hat-Mr.-Peanut looking capitalist pigs. The truth is, he has very little visibility of who would actually use the subsidy. Solar energy sales professionals, on the other hand, do - that is what this post is about.
The wealthy, […]

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There were two big events that were misinterpreted by the media which led to a virtual absence of material written about the pilot program. The reason this is a disaster is because it would have brought the public attention to McGoldrick’s unnecessary review of the funding. Instead, only the solar industry itself is […]

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Solar-power advocates are frustrated that San Francisco politics have so far stalled a modest investment of public money in a solar panel program as the city continues to fall behind others in California in its use of sun energy.On Tuesday, a Board of Supervisors committee delayed for at least three weeks a vote to use […]

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Here’s the 4/16/08 Budget and Finance committee review of the $3m SF Solar Incentive Program’s review that was introduced by Supervisor McGoldrick.
Ignoring weeks and weeks of overwhelming unanimous positivity towards the perfectly designed SFPUC pilot program
The solar incentive program issues are the first two discussed.
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The budget and finance committee met today. Despite DOZENS of citizens in UNANIMOUS (yes, unanimous) support of the pilot program, McGoldrick motioned to defer making any decisions until another month when he gets back from his trip to Europe, and it was seconded (is that how you say that?) by Chris Daily. *gavel knock*And…. all […]

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The SFPUC put a ton of effort into this. It answers all major concerns of the board extremely well. I am not sure why they are stalling on the review when the public speaking interest has been OVERWHELMINGLY in favor of the pilot program. I honestly haven’t been this upset about something since college about […]

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From the office of Assessor-Recorder Phil Ting:

Greetings all…my apologies if you have received this message already.
I wanted to provide you with an update on the hearing schedule for the solar incentive program for this week. As we reported before, the legislation to freeze funding for the solar program will be heard for the second […]

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From the office of Assessor-Recorder Phil Ting

I wanted to provide you with an update from my email of last week. As we reported before, the legislation to freeze funding for the solar program will be heard for the second time in the Board of Supervisor’s Budget Committee on Wednesday, April 16. Please note: […]

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The following email is from the Office of Assessor-Recorder Phil Ting
As many of you know, the solar incentive program was not launched on Monday. The plan was to have the program begin as a pilot program administered by the SFPUC on March 31st.. The week before it was to launch, Supervisor McGoldrick called for […]

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McGoldrick wants to “pause” this subsidy program because he thinks the money might be better used on municipal programs (Barbara explained why the subsidy was a greater public benefit used on the private sector as on muni projects - basically SIX TIMES as effectives). It sounds like he is OK with renewable energy subsidies […]

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All,
I am writing to provide an update on the City’s solar rebate program.As many of you know, the planned roll-out of the rebate program schedule for April 1 (today) has been postponed based on potential action at the Board of Supervisors to freeze funding for the rebate program. Supervisor McGoldrick introduced legislation at the […]

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Unfortunately this is not an April Fool’s Joke:
Friends-
San Francisco’s new solar program is under threat, and we need your to help turn things around.
In January, the SF Public Utilities Commission announced a pilot program to give incentives to San Francisco residents to install solar energy systems. It’s a great program- $3 million a year in […]

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