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What are the most promising ways of getting solar revved up in Arizona?
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Invite and encourage a large-scale development of solar here (of several hundred megawatts). Several companies have been sniffing around to do just that, although they have been thwarted (they say) by the local utility companies.
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Establish ambitious goals. The Western Governor’s Association, has a target of 30,000 MW of renewable for the western states by the year 2015. See http://www.westgov.org/ for details.
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Increase the Environmental Portfolio Standard, a function of the Arizona Corporation Commission.
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Get real teeth in a law mitigating CC&R restrictions on homeowners. There is existing law that protects homeowners in Arizona , but CC&Rs tend to scare possible users
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Get major developers to design homes for easy installation of PV systems. They build some 90% of all new homes. Most designs make it more difficult to install solar than it need be.
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Have the utilities pay a closer to a real price for on-peak PV power.
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Establish tradable Green Credits (tags) in favor of PV that are valued closer to the equivalent pollution that they avoid.
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