UPDATE 6/10/08 SF Solar Incentive Passes! BOOYAH!

June 10th, 2008 · No Comments

The subsidy is now law! It even has an extra $1.5M now for non-profits and low-income situations. Info is below. Click here for the official solar incentive program press release from the assessors office.

If you are interested in having your home or business evaluated for solar energy, please see the links on the right or click here.

I want to personally thank everyone who called or wrote their supervisors to ask for this to pass. It was a long journey, and congratulations.

From Wade Crowfoot of the mayor’s office:

All,

Thanks for your tireless advocacy over the past months on behalf of solar in San Francisco. Almost seven months after Mayor Newsom and Assessor Ting first proposed a citywide solar rebate program, it has been approved for implementation.

Today, the Board of Supervisors passed at the second and final reading the full 10-year solar rebate program by a vote of 8-3. This program, which Supervisor Dufty guided through the final Board process, will utilize $3 million of funding available immediately to implement the program. In a key development, Supervisor Mirkarimi’s amended his legislation to be complementary rather than competitive to the long-term program. His legislation allocates an additional $1.5 million in funding for low-income residents and non-profits to install solar. All told, $4.5 million in funding was in essence approved for solar rebates in the coming year by today’s votes.

I will get back in touch with everyone to let them know the specific date in the coming weeks in which the rebate program will start. I plan to organize a meeting with the PUC and local installers so that installers and interested residents can learn how to access these rebates as efficiently as possible.

Thanks much,
Wade

From the Assessor-Recorder’s office:

Great news: the ten-year solar incentive program passed out of the Board of Supervisors today. As you all know, this has been a long and arduous process and we would not be here if not for the hard work and dedication of the our City partners (Mayor Newsom’s Ofc., SFPUC, SFE) and all of you tremendous advocates for solar that have been visiting, writing and calling members of the Board of Supervisors encouraging them to pass this legislation.