Do you have a building with a roof?
Community Choice districts set rates for the electricity they purchase. They also decide the degree and composition of renewables, including the extent to which those renewables come from local generators.
Now imagine that you own a commercial property with a large roof suitable for solar. Today, it may not be economically feasible to install solar, depending on building's electricity demand. Feasibility is hampered by the rate paid for excess electricity -- kilowatt hours (kWh) sent back into the grid. A CCA, however, could set a higher rate. A preferential rate. Because the community wants locally-generated solar kWh and will pay for them. All three current CA CCAs currently offer preferential rates for local solar generation.
In the emerging clean energy economy, local generators are paid for kWh at a rate that reflects the full benefit of those kWh to the grid and to society as a whole. In this world, commercial property owners could have two revenue streams -- rent from their Tenants AND revenue from their kWh sales. Rents could include electricity, or not. Landlords could sell kWh to adjoining properties, or --under "virtual net metering", which exists now-- receive credit for sale of their excess kWh on the bill of other properties they own.
Clean Electricity Choice will create an array of energy management tools and opportunities for property owners. These, in turn, will make buildings more energy efficient, tenants more efficient energy users, and properties more valuable.
Join us in bringing this future to pass.
Now imagine that you own a commercial property with a large roof suitable for solar. Today, it may not be economically feasible to install solar, depending on building's electricity demand. Feasibility is hampered by the rate paid for excess electricity -- kilowatt hours (kWh) sent back into the grid. A CCA, however, could set a higher rate. A preferential rate. Because the community wants locally-generated solar kWh and will pay for them. All three current CA CCAs currently offer preferential rates for local solar generation.
In the emerging clean energy economy, local generators are paid for kWh at a rate that reflects the full benefit of those kWh to the grid and to society as a whole. In this world, commercial property owners could have two revenue streams -- rent from their Tenants AND revenue from their kWh sales. Rents could include electricity, or not. Landlords could sell kWh to adjoining properties, or --under "virtual net metering", which exists now-- receive credit for sale of their excess kWh on the bill of other properties they own.
Clean Electricity Choice will create an array of energy management tools and opportunities for property owners. These, in turn, will make buildings more energy efficient, tenants more efficient energy users, and properties more valuable.
Join us in bringing this future to pass.
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On August 28, 2015, SDED presented an "Introduction to Community Electricity Choice" to the San Diego Association of Realtors (SDAR) Government Affairs Committee.
SDED presented both the slides below and DRAFT Resolution of Support", right: |
DRAFT Resolution -- |