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 The current California Solar Incentives are available on a First Come-First Served Basis for all Southern California Edison, San Diego Gas & Electric and Pacific Gas & Electric customers. Reserving your California Solar Incentive for your solar electric system for your home will guarantee the highest available incentive level. Homeowners throughout California can receive up to $2,000 in federal tax credits for your system installation until December 31, 2008.  

Solar Electric System Owners Benefit from Time-of-Use Metering Program 

California's net metering law provides that all utilities must allow customers with solar electric systems rated up to 1.5 MW to interconnect with the local utility grid and receiving retail value for the electricity produced. The owner of a residential grid-connected solar electric system may buy and sell electricity each month under the Time-of-Use program. Southern California Edison’s Time-of-Use program is designed to encourage customers to reduce electricity use by charging higher rates during peak hours. This is a great advantage for solar electric system owners. For example, Southern California Edison Tier 5 Time Of Use rate allows you to run your electric meter backwards at up to $0.48 per kWh during the weekday afternoons when your solar electric system would be generating its maximum amount of power and purchase electricity during the evenings at $0.12 per kWh. Southern California Edison would change your meter so that it can measure the amounts of electricity you use within different time periods each day of the week. With your new meter, you can check your usage during each of the Time-of-Use rate periods and monitor your electric usage patterns. This Time of Use billing method effectively improves the economics of your solar power electric system by a factor of 15% to 40% depending on your home's electrical usage.

California grid-tie solar electric power system installations are currently eligible for the $2.20 per Watt California Solar Incentive and homeowners can also receive a federal tax credit of up to $2,000 for the solar electric system installation that has solar panels that are guaranteed to produce electricity for minimum of 25 years. These incentives help homeowners afford to install their own grid-tie solar electric power system or grid tie battery back up solar electric system to give them power when the grid is down. Solar electric systems are also exempt from property tax in California. Invest in your own grid-tie solar electric power system today and protect yourself from future electric rate increases. Click the solar electric system sizing form button below and we will send you a quote for a solar electric power system installation on your home that includes the new $2,000 federal tax credits and the California performance-based solar incentive for the system.

                                              

2008 California Solar Electric System Quotation   If you would like Solar-Tec Systems  to send you a quotation for a utility interconnection solar electric system for your home and with the $2,000 solar panel federal tax credit, click Solar Electric System Sizing and Quotation Form below.

4,080 Watt Suntech Power Grid-Tie System

The Solar-Tec Systems Suntech 4,080 Watt System is estimated to generate 19.0 kWh per day based on 5.5 hours of sun light per day. When the sun shines, you can generate more power than your home is consuming and your electric meter will spin backwards generating a credit. At night you'll draw on utility company power, essentially using the electrical grid as a giant storage battery. The 24 Suntech Power, Inc. STP170S-24/Ab-1 170 Watt panels requires 342 sq. ft. of south facing roof area for a flush mount array. The Sunny Boy SB4000US (240 Volt) Utility Inter-Tie Inverter has a digital performance meter that records the daily performance and cumulative kWh production total. Solar-Tec Systems would reserve the 2008 California Solar Incentive for the 4,080 Watt system.

* The 2005 Federal Energy Bill creates a new tax credit of up to $2000 for residential grid-tie solar electric and solar hot water system installations for two years; applied to all residential solar electric installations placed in service after December 31, 2005 and before December 31, 2008.

  With a California Energy Commission efficiency rating of 96%; the SMA Sunny Boy SB7000US Grid-Tie Inverter is a proven, reliable, high quality pure sine wave grid-tie inverter that offers Maximum Power Point Tracking.

     Solar-Tec Systems provides architects, engineers, commercial developers and private homeowners with a single source of responsibility for the design and integration of grid-tie solar electric power systems. Contact us at 949-248-9728.

Access your Southern California Edison Usage

To access your your Southern California Edison electrical usage you can register and view your your SCE usage online click:

   The California Solar Incentive provides rebates to consumers who install qualifying renewable energy systems on their property. Your performance-based financial incentive may vary according to the system size, technology, and installation method. For more information from the California Solar Incentive Program

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