Solar Gardens Workshops at Colorado PUC

Community Solar Gardens Workshops at the Colorado PUC

   The Colorado Public Utilities Commission will be sponsoring a series of
   workshops to help write the rules for the Community Solar Gardens Act and
   other community energy legislation.
   The workshop dates and topic areas will be as follows:

   December 2, 2010......    Application criteria and priority parameters (SEC
   and  Queue),  allocation  notification  requirements,  definitions,
   billing  methodology  and  real  time  production  data  (subscribers  and
   Qualified  Retail  Utility (QRU)), QRU acquisition and application.

   December 16, 2010........  Customer protection, subscriber organizations
   and  business  models  (minimum  capitalization),  share  transfers.

   January 6, 2011........  Issues regarding H.B. 10-1418.


   January 20, 2011........  Low  income  and  agriculture  participation  in
   Community  Solar  Gardens  and  issues  regarding  H.B. 10-1349.

   The topics outlined above may change, primarily as a result of discussions
   at a  prior  workshop.    Further  workshops  may  be  scheduled  by
   separate  order  based  upon  the  experiences in these workshops. 

   All workshops will be held at the Colorado Public Utilities  Commission, 1560
   Broadway, Suite 250, Denver, Colorado, 80202.  The workshops will begin at
   9:00 a.m. and end at 12:00 p.m.

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   We are keeping in touch through the Solar Gardens Google Group
   at http://groups.google.com/group/solargardens - feel free to sign in and
   invite interested folks

   Joy Hughes
   Founder, Solar Gardens Institute