Sentences with phrase «value of solar tariffs»
By Yann Brandt Value of solar tariffs, also known as VOSTs, have hit some level of critical mass; at least with public perception and media.
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The Value of Solar (VOS) rate (or Value of Solar tariff) is an alternative to net metering designed to capture the value solar installations provide to the electric system.
Is A Value Of Solar Tariff (VOST) Really Better Than Net Metering?
The question to ask yourself, as I did; do you know what a value of solar tariff is?
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«A key component of this tariff is that Staff doesn't have all the information and analysis they would need to calculate these values in a precise way, so they are using proxies instead as a first step toward more granular compensation,» notes a statement by Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA).
Today's decision also directs Commission staff to develop an interim approach to compensating community solar customers until the new Phase Two Value of Distributed Energy Resources (VDER) tariff is established in early 2019.
The paper emphasizes that any tariff, like VDER, must include the full set of values that distributed energy resources, like community solar, provide and that customers must be compensated for this credit in a way that supports viable projects.
But DEEP can not make claims about the cost - effectiveness of distributed solar or restructure the NEB tariff «until it does an evidence - based, data - based value of solar or value of distributed energy resources study,» Humphries said.
The solar industry has been suggesting the scheme be changed, particularly in light of the 50 per cent reduction in module costs in the last 18 months, but it argued for a staged reduction to avoid havoc in the industry, and to end with a tariff that reflected the value of the solar put back into the grid (i.e. give it a value greater than coal).
Because solar generates during the day and the morning and early afternoon are usually considered off peak times then the value of exported solar power is usually less on a time of use tariff.
«A key component of this tariff is that Staff doesn't have all the information and analysis they would need to calculate these values in a precise way, so they are using proxies instead as a first step toward more granular compensation,» notes a statement by Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA).