Update on the Million Solar Roofs Initiative

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Update on the Million Solar Roofs Initiative

• October 2002
• Heather Mulligan
• U.S. DOE
• Seattle Regional Office

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Benefits MSR Partnership provides the Solar
Program

• A large, motivated, community-based, volunteer
  solar workforce
• Valuable feedback from the trenches on
• Local markets
• Successful strategies for increasing solar
  adoption
• System performance
• Program information and analysis
• A framework for sharing solar information and
  tools to reduce redundancy and maximize results
• Big impact relative to resources devoted

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Status/outcome of 02 activities

• Partnered with Interstate Renewable Energy
  Council (IREC)
• Conducted regional Peer Exchanges
• Revisiting system definitions (what counts)
• Developing new methods for counting
• Revamped the partnership grants to encourage more
  accountability
• Working with National Laboratories to meet more
  MSR Partnership needs.

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Million Solar Roofs and Interstate Renewable
Energy Council

• Held coordinated IREC/MSR annual meeting in June
  at Solar 2002 in Reno currently coordinating
  next meeting in Austin, TX on June 22, 2003
• IREC now handles these MSR tasks
• Newsletter (electronic biweekly)
• Website (Now on Solar Host)
• Regional meeting facilitation (L. Sherwood)
• Conference Call Seminar Series
• List-serve development and maintenance

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Regional MSR meetings

• Bringing in experts in regionally relevant
  barrier busting
• Povide survey of implementation and outreach
  tools that are available
• Highlight laboratory technical assistance
• Six held in 2002 Another six planned for 2003

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MSR System Definitions

• Plan to explicitly include new types of systems
  currently in the market
• Plan to revise/simplify system size requirements
• Intent is to make it easier for partnership to
  tally successes. We are now revising our proposal
  to the MSR partners with that end more firmly in
  mind.

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New MSR System Counting

• Considering allowing partners to count kWs or BTU
  and claim roof equivalents if they wish.
• Eliminates pressure for a bunch of little systems
  rather than larger ones
• Gives partners partial credit for 100s of too
  small systems
• Considering counting rehabilitated systems

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Partnership Grants

• In 2002 we offered 2 kinds of grants
• New partnerships grants (Phase 1)
• Meeting the Commitment (Phase 2) which builds on
  (forces completion of) prior grants
• FY 2003 Solicitation to be released April/May
  timeframe. Expect to award approximately 30-35
  grants.

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National Labs role in MSR

• Provide technical assistance
• Developing information and tools for partnerships
• Developing working MSR house models
• Advising on systems definitions and counting
  conventions
• Conducting Annual MSR Awards

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MSRI Status 10/1/2002

• 67 Partnerships
• Over a million systems pledged 2010
• Approximately 350,000 systems installed by end of
  CY 2002
• 35 new 2002 Grants
• 1.666 M total
• 19 states
• 10 new partnership grants
• 25 Meeting the commitment partnership grants

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Solar Roofs installed Through 1/1/02 in
Equivalent Roofs