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<br />water heating and solar heating and cooling systems being added after workshops are <br />conducted later this year. <br /> <br />. The California Energy Commission (CEC) will oversee one component of the program to <br /> <br /> <br />focus on builders and developers of new housing, to encourage solar installations in the <br /> <br /> <br />residential new construction market. The PUC will oversee the remainder and majority of the <br /> <br /> <br />California Solar Initiative, which will cover existing residential housing, as well as existing <br /> <br /> <br />and new commercial and industrial properties. <br /> <br />. The program sets aside 10 percent of program funding for low-income customers and <br /> <br /> <br />affordable housing installations. The PUC will also explore the option of offering low-cost <br /> <br /> <br />financing options to those types of installations in workshops this year. <br /> <br />. The program includes an additional amount of up to 5 percent ofthe annual budget for <br /> <br /> <br />potential research, development, and demonstration activities, with emphasis on the <br /> <br /> <br />demonstration of solar and solar-related technologies. <br /> <br />. The program includes a requirement that solar incentive payments be made not just for <br /> <br /> <br />installed capacity, but also with emphasis on the performance and output ofthe solar systems <br /> <br /> <br />installed, to ensure that these solar investments are delivering clean energy as promised. <br /> <br />. The program design requires all facilities that receive an incentive to undergo an energy <br /> <br /> <br />efficiency audit (at a minimum) to identity more cost-effective energy efficiency investment <br /> <br /> <br />options at the building. The PUC also intends to have further workshops to detennine <br /> <br /> <br />incentives for newly constructed buildings that participate in utility energy efficiency new <br /> <br /> <br />construction programs and exceed the existing building standards by a certain threshold. <br /> <br />"We are taking an important step today to layout a framework for an orderly, lO-year <br /> <br /> <br />approach to creating a sustainable solar industry. Our hope is that solar will become a major part of <br /> <br /> <br />California's energy portfolio, to provide clean and inexpensive distributed generation to millions of <br /> <br /> <br />California consumers," said President Peevey. "Our plan is to offer a subsidy now to push the <br /> <br /> <br />deployment of an important part of our sustainable energy future in the long-run. This solar program <br /> <br /> <br />simply offers one of the many emerging alternatives to consumers concerned about a clean energy <br /> <br /> <br />future." <br /> <br />California Public Utilities Commission 01/12/06 <br />