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The 3rd annual CEE Clean Energy Awards Gala & Summit is set for 9 June, 2016 at Warsaw's InterContinental Hotel.
In addition to awarding top companies in the sector, such as wind and solar energy producers and developers (as well as natural gas), the 3rd annual CEE Clean Energy Awards recognizes top energy traders and service providers like engineering firms, law firms, and investment bankers.
In a challenging geopolitical environment, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe are in a strategic position to influence Europe's energy future. With dramatic price disruptions, emerging competitors and a growing demand for energy, CEE's clean energy sector must address issues such as grid development and interconnections, global technological changes driving the sector, strategic alliances, and erratic clean-energy subsidies and regulations.
The Awards represent a cross-sector of clean energy firms, ranging from natural gas producers and distributors (LNG), wind, solar, and biogas/biomass developers, and grid and network operators. The Awards also recognize new types of competitors, particularly energy traders, and other "asset-light" companies, and the full range of service providers – operational, financial and professional.
While carbon-based energy companies are not included in our definition of "clean", technologies and innovations that reduce emissions related to coal and oil are welcome.
With more than 250 clean-energy execs expected from across the CEE region and investors from western Europe, US and Scandinavia, the CEE Clean Energy Awards will celebrate the contribution of companies, projects, and individuals who are leading the dynamic and fast-paced changes in the region's clean energy sector.
The Awards dinner will be preceded by a CEE Clean Energy Awards Gala & Summit & Discussion Panel. The Summit will focus on a significant area related to the CEE Energy Industry.
This dynamic panel of international leaders experienced in their fields will address a variety of the most recent issues relating to Energy,
Innovative technologies and new business models breathe life into the sector.
How companies are adjusting and adapting to regulatory and market changes in the renewables energy sector:
Driven by economics, politics and the EU's European Energy Union initiative, CEE's gas sector is rapidly developing. LNG terminals, gas interconnectors and grid connections, and the North-South Energy corridor are having a major impact on markets.
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Investors' tales of successes and disappointments.
As the list of jury members grows over the coming months, we will continue to add their details to our site. The jury will be finalised at the beginning of March.
Founder & President, Volta Europe BGS
Vice President, Towarowa Gielda Energii S.A. (Grupa Kapitalowa GPW)
President, Petroleum Club of Romania
Energy Manager, Brembo Poland Sp . z o.o.
Principal Banker, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Director Strategy & Marketing, Central and Eastern Europe, and Russia, Grid Solutions, a GE and Alstom joint venture
Board member, vortex energy Holding AG Germany
Director, Slovenske elektrarne, a.s
Prezes , Institute for Renewable Energy
Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, CRE Consulting, Centrum Rozwoju Energetyki (Energy Development Center)
Manager, PWC
Senior Finance and Policy Analyst, Bloomberg New Energy Finance
Member of the Board, Director of Strategic Infrastructure Department, LITGRID AB
Dyrektor, Departament Energetyki Wiatrowej, PGE Energia Odnawialna S.A.
Deputy CEO, WindEurope
Duon board member, Fortum Poland
Energy Manager, Large Industries, Air Liquide Polska Sp. z o.o.
Investment Director, CEE Equity
Partner, PAI Investment Group
Head of Structured and Mezzanine Finance, mBank
Senior Adviser, Grupa LOTOS S.A.
Prezes, POLISH POWER EXCHANGE
Director of Operations & Maintenance Office Wind Energy Department, PGE Energia Odnawialna S.A.
Research and Development Engineer, Momentum Araştırma Geliştirme Teknoloji
Energy Correspondent, Argus Media
President of the Management Board , ENEA Wytwarzanie
President of Board, Polskie Stowarzyszenie Energetyki Wiatrowej (Polish Wind Energy Association)
The Jury has made its initial votes, and we're pleased to announce the Short-List for the 3rd annual CEE CLEAN Energy Awards. These "Short-Listed" firms move on to the final vote (8 June), to be cast at the Jury Dinner one night before the CEE CLEAN... More »
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Alston will be a starter at one of two running back spots for No. 11 West Virginia when it opens the season at home Saturday against Marshall.
Known for his work in short-yardage and goal-line situations, the 235-pound Alston produced in other circumstances, too, including a solid performance in the 70-33 Orange Bowl win over Clemson.
He hopes to boost a unit that ranked 92nd in the Bowl Subdivision at 123 yards per game.
"I think I'm going to do a good job of changing a lot of minds and people's perceptions of me," Alston said.
An unknown to coach Dana Holgorsen at the start of last season due to injury, Alston rebounded to lead the Mountaineers with 12 rushing touchdowns.
Alston "is probably one of the most vocal guys that we have on the team (and) possesses tremendous leadership skills," Holgorsen said Monday. "He's a senior, had a great camp. I'm looking forward to getting him out there."
The running game isn't the mainstay of West Virginia's pass-happy offense with the focus on quarterback Geno Smith and several solid receivers. Yet the running game is needed to keep defenses on their heels, and that consistency didn't always come through last year.
Dustin Garrison ran for 291 yards as a freshman against Bowling Green but gained just 451 yards the rest of the year. He suffered a knee injury during practice before the Orange Bowl, missed the game and underwent surgery.
Alston missed the first two games and eventually got his big chance in the October snow at Rutgers. Alston used his straight-ahead power style to run for a career-high 110 yards and two touchdowns in the 41-31 comeback win.
In the Orange Bowl, Alston ran for a team-high 77 rushing yards and two TDs. For the season, he finished second on the team with 416 yards and won the starting job in preseason camp.
Alston graduated this summer with a degree in criminology and plans to start graduate school next spring. If the NFL doesn't come calling, he'll study criminal law and looks forward to the day he can take the courtroom floor as a prosecutor, a criminal defense lawyer or working with juveniles.
He's had plenty of time talking it up with his teammates.
"Oh yeah, I'm a great debater," Alston said. "Anytime anything's going on around my team, they come ask me questions or just different things — I'm really, really good at debating."
There's no doubt that West Virginia could use a few more proven bodies in the backfield. Besides Alston and Garrison, no other rusher had more than 200 yards last year.
"People tend to overlook the running game," Alston said. "I think we did, I'm not going to say, a good job. An average job. But that's something we've just got to grow on."
While much of the work for the running backs in West Virginia's offense involves blocking and pass protection, "it's our job to make the running game work," Alston said. "Because if the running game don't work, then the coaches are going to go away from it."
And Alston isn't about to let that happen.
"I came to camp this year and did a good job showing the coaches that I can be an every-down back," he said.
Andrew Buie is listed as Alston's backup with Garrison at No. 3. Ryan Clarke, who didn't have a carry last year, and converted linebacker Donovan Miles are listed at the other running back slot.
Holgorsen said no decision has been made on how much playing time Garrison will get. The coach does want to have four running backs ready to play.
"We do need that (extra) body," he said. "Running back is probably the hardest position to play in college football. Those guys take a pounding. We ask them to do so many things."
Alston will get his share of requests, and he's ready for them.
"I feel very confident," he said. "We have a very electrifying backfield. I feel the sky's the limit. We have the opportunity to go out there and show people what we can do."


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Rookies are kind of difficult to gauge.
You could have a rookie come out and play like Adrian Peterson, who in his first year was Pro-Bowl worthy.
And then you have the Ryan Leafs of this world.
Enough said.
It just isn't easy to define success as a rookie.
What it really boils down to is this: It's all relative to the team and the situation.
But taking all that into account, there are several rookies in the NFC West who figure to have big impacts.
And let me define impact very quickly. When I say impact, I mean production.
I mean changing the success of a team.
I mean being involved in how the team plays.
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Smartphones spread slowly in China, despite 3G and iPhone
China now has the iPhone and more big-name smartphones are due in the country, but few buyers overall are choosing smartphones despite promotion by China's mobile carriers.
China now has the iPhone and more big-name smartphones are due in the country, but few buyers overall are choosing smartphones despite promotion by China's mobile carriers.
Pizza Hut has launched an Apple iPhone app that allows users to order pizzas at a discounted price.
Sales of mobile devices equipped with touch screens are set to boom worldwide, according a report published by research firm Gartner.
We're down to the final weeks before the debut of Apple's famed iPad. Even with the sale date set, though, plenty of pressing questions remain about the highly hyped device.
Apple filed a patent infringement lawsuit Tuesday against HTC, claiming that the Taiwanese company is infringing 20 Apple patents.
Cisco Systems will soon release a VPN client for smartphones and PCs aimed at enterprise administrators who want to provide secure access to their networks and ward off malicious software.
That iPhone you adore may have been built by a child.
Apple's ban on sexy apps -- more than 5000 apps were removed from the app store over the weekend because they contained "overtly sexual content" -- has been making headlines, mostly because of the selectivity of the removal.
Android and Apple's iPhone OS were the fastest-growing smartphone platforms in 2009, with sales of the iPhone OS overtaking those of Windows Mobile, research company Gartner said Tuesday. Symbian and Research In Motion's BlackBerry still lead the mar...
Apple Inc. will not use Adobe Systems Inc.'s e-book digital rights management (DRM) technology, an Adobe executive said on Wednesday.
A hacking contest next month will award cash prizes of $US15,000 to anyone who can break into an iPhone, BlackBerry Bold, Droid or Nokia smartphone.
A curious thing happened recently to two prominent iPhone hackers: Upon trying to log in to the iPhone's App Store, they get error messages saying their Apple ID was banned for "security reasons."
How'd they pull it off, that's what I hope I'm saying once I've wrapped my fingers around Capcom's surprise iPhone port of popular arcade-style brawler Street Fighter IV. That's right, Street Fighter IV. Not another Resident Evil, or Mega Man 3, or A...
Your friends and family are on Twitter, as are celebrities and even astronauts, so why shouldn't your dog be on as well? That will soon happen thanks to an iPhone application that "translates" dog barks into English and tweets them out to the world.
Apple's claims about iPhone privacy and security are exaggerated, according to software engineer and security expert Nicolas Seriot, who gave a presentation yesterday about the iPhone at the Black Hat Conference in DC.
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First impression on unpacking the Q702 test unit was the solid feel and clean, minimalist styling.
For work use, Microsoft Word and Excel programs pre-installed on the device are adequate for preparing short documents.
The Fujitsu LifeBook UH574 allowed for great mobility without being obnoxiously heavy or clunky. Its twelve hours of battery life did not disappoint.
The screen was particularly good. It is bright and visible from most angles, however heat is an issue, particularly around the Windows button on the front, and on the back where the battery housing is located.
My first impression after unboxing the Q702 is that it is a nice looking unit. Styling is somewhat minimalist but very effective. The tablet part, once detached, has a nice weight, and no buttons or switches are located in awkward or intrusive positions.


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Kidney yang, also called primordial yang, is the basis of the yang qi of the entire body. It heats and encourages the functions of the organs and tissues as well.
In accordance with traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), the kidneys are the source of a small number of main substances in the body. We possess the "Yin" or body fluids and cooling mechanisms and also the "Yang" or metabolic heat. This circumstance can escalate to a lack of marrow in the head which ascends to a dull empty headache that is provoked by fatigue if the Kidney Yin or Yang is deficient. Although strange, but it is true.
Some of the symptoms of kidney yang deficiency, according to TCM, are repeated urination, difficulty urinating, and edema, symptoms that necessitate medical attention.
Sweating for no reason is other symptoms of kidney yang deficiency. This is because of the lack of energy in the body not being able to appropriately unlock and lock the pores of the skin. It is no problem to sweat while you're anxious or hot. But you might suffer a Kidney Yang deficiency if you're sweating for no good reason.
Not everybody with kidney yang deficiency lives through these symptoms. In TCM, the kidneys possess a broader function than the kidneys in Western physiology.
You're also might be cold constantly if you're deficient in Yang. Generally, when we consider a typical Yang deficiency, we deem in terms of the functions of the Kidneys because, in accordance with Chinese medicine, they are supposed as the source of Yang in the body.
Presentations of kidney yang deficiency comprise: soreness or cold sensation in the knees and lumbar regions, aversion to cold, cold limbs, spiritual fatigue, difficult in urination, enuresis, incontinence, declining libido, or impotence in severe cases; female sterility, and general edema may also appear. The pulse is fine or fine and deep; the tongue is bulky, moist, and covered with white fur. Kidney yang deficiency syndrome generates signs of yang vacuity internal cold constantly.
Kidney yang deficiency and kidney qi deficiency stand for numerous stages of a process. Inappropriate management of kidney qi deficiency causes kidney yang deficiency; on the contrary, appropriate management of kidney yang deficiency causes less acute symptoms of a kidney qi deficiency and subsequently gradual improvement to the normal condition.
A lot of diseases can be caused by imbalance of kidney yin and kidney yang. This imbalance also can influence the entire organs of the body. It should be first determined whether there is a deficiency of yin or yang, for accurate diagnosis of a condition, before identifying the organs concerned. The effectives of treatment can be stimulated by cautious diagnosis.


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Mom Jailed After Son Skips School For 50 Days in Southern California
A Long Beach mom was jailed after her son missed about 50 days of class this school year, according to police'
Ermila Zamora, 43, spent a night in jail earlier this week after she was arrested on suspicion of failing to ensure the boy attended class. She apparently made $10,000 bail, according to sheriff's records.
A new law allowing authorities to arrest parents when their kids don't attend class 10 percent of the time (unexcused) in a given school year went into effect Jan. 1.
Long Beach police actually put detectives on the case earlier this year. According to an LBPD statement:
Officers quickly identified a Washington Middle School student that missed more than 20 days of school and had been through the LBUSD's School Attendance Review Board (SARB) process. After several months, the student's attendance still had not improved and the City Prosecutor's Office ordered the arrest of Zamora. By the time of her arrest, the student had over 50 days of unexcused absences from school.
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Apparently this isn't the first time Zamora has been in trouble with the law for having a kid skip class.
In 2007 she was arrested on suspicion of contributing to the delinquency of a minor when her older son had too many absences from public school, authorities said.
Cops weren't revealing the ages, names or specific grades of the siblings.
Long Beach City prosecutor Doug Haubert:
We are taking school truancy seriously. Police officers and school officials are doing everything they can to keep kids in school and out of trouble, and if parents are unwilling to take responsibility themselves, then we will take action against the parents.
If she's guilty (which we're not saying she is), mama Zamora could face a year behind bars and a $2,000.00 fine.
Jeez, lady, don't you know sending your kid school gives you some of that illusive "me" time?
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UPDATE - 5/28/16 - Despite our best efforts, AB 2339 was HELD in the Appropriations Committee, effectively killing the bill this session. Thank you to everyone who took the time to call and voice their support for the bill. Special thanks to Frank Andorka who created a podcast in support of the bill, all the way from Cleveland! We lost this battle, but the fight continues.
UPDATE - 5/26/16 - We passed the Assembly Utilities Committee on a 10-2 vote, but right now we are stuck in the Assembly Appropriations Committee, chaired by San Diego Democrat Lorena Gonzalez. The decision of whether to allow AB 2339 to advance to the Assembly Floor rests in the hands of two people: Chair Gonzalez and Speaker Rendon. Please take a moment to give them a call and urge them to support the bill. Here are their numbers:
Back in February we wrote about the new Net Metering 2.0 rules that the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) approved over the objections of the Investor-Owned Utilities (IOUs), SCE, PG&E, and SDG&E.
We noted at the time that the CPUC rulemaking did not directly affect the Municipal Utilities (munis, like Pasadena Water and Power). Boy was that right as muni after muni is looking to shut down Net Metering altogether! Here's our take, and more importantly, an action item that you can take to preserve Net Metering with the munis.
The munis are generally free, within the limits of state law, to set their own policies as confirmed by the local city council. So here in Pasadena, PWP sets its policy but has to have that policy ratified by the city council's vote. When it comes to Net Metering, state law requires that the munis, like the IOUs, offer Net Metering agreements until the amount of solar deployed exceeds "5% of the electric utility's aggregate customer peak demand." (CA Public Utilities Code § 2827) Now if that quote seems like less than a model of clarity, you are quite right. Before the CPUC, the IOUs argued that it meant that you look at a utility's highest peak demand as of a certain point in time, and that would be the cap. Such an interpretation, however, reads the words "aggregate customer" out of the statute. The CPUC agreed, and the proper interpretation requires the utility to sum the aggregate demand from each customer and that becomes the cap.
The results are dramatic - the proper interpretation effectively doubles the total amount of solar allowed under the cap. That decision by the CPUC back in 2012 redefined Net Metering, but only for the IOUs. At the time there was little concern regarding the munis since none was close to reaching their cap.
Fast forward to today and five munis have already reached their caps, as calculated under the old, pre-CPUC ruling, methodology. That leaves them free to replace Net Metering with whatever they choose, and at least one, Turlock, has adopted new rules that have resulted in an 85% decline in the solar market there! (In contrast, LADWP has already agreed to the new methodology thanks to leadership from Mayor Garcetti.)
Fortunately there is a fix in the works. AB 2339 (Irwin - D-44) will require that the munis calculate their caps in effectively the same way as the IOUs. The bill is presently in the Assembly Committee on Utilities and Commerce, chaired by Mike Gatto (D-43) - a former student and colleague of mine, and a champion of clean energy.
We need the strongest bill possible coming out of the committee, and you can help make that happen. How? Our friends at CALSEIA have compiled a target list of key assembly members who need to here from their constituents on this bill. From the CALSEIA newsflash:
Target List:
- Jim Patterson (R-Fresno/Clovis) 916-319-2023
- Susan Eggman (D-Stockton/Mountain House/Thornton/Tracy) 916-319-2013
- Mike Gatto (D-Burbank/Glendale/La Canada/La Crescenta) 916-319-2043
- Bill Quirk (D-Hayward/Ashland/Castro Valley/Cherryland/Fairview/ Fremont/ Pleasanton/San Lorenzo/Sunol/Union City) 916- 319-2020
- Miguel Santiago (D-Huntington Park/Vernon) 916- 319-2053
- Eduardo Garcia (D-Imperial/Blythe/Brawley/Calexico/Cathedral City/Coachella/Desert H.Springs/El Centro/Indio) 916- 319-2056
- Christina Garcia (D-LA/Bell Gardens/Bellflower/Cerritos/Commerce/ Downey/Montebello/Pico Rivera) 916- 319-2058
- David Hadley (R-Torrance/Gardena/Lomita/Manhattan Beach/Palos Verdes Estates/Redondo Beach/West Carson) 916- 319-2066
- Phil Ting (D-San Francisco) (916) 319-2019
- Rocky Chavez (R-Oceanside/Calsbad/Encinitas/Vista) (916) 319-2076
If you live in one of those districts, or if you run a business in one, or have customers there, please contact that member.
More generally, there is a website where anyone can go to express their support for expanding the benefits of Net Metering to muni customers throughout the State. Just click on the button to make this happen:
Sadly, the list of entities opposing this bill includes Pasadena Water and Power - looks like we need some political leadership here in our own backyard to get PWP on board.
We will update this post as the bill progresses through the legislature - watch this space!
The new year is well underway (Happy New Year!), and so it is timely to revisit the question of financial incentives to Go Solar in the Run on Sun service area. (You can read more detail about all of these incentives on our Solar Financing page.)
Beyond a doubt, the most significant incentive for going solar is the 30% federal tax credit. Previously set to expire at the end of this year, the federal solar tax credit was extended late last year, continuing at the present 30% through 2019.
The credit applies to solar installations in every utility's territory, so no matter where you live in the U.S., this credit applies to you. (NB: this is a tax credit, not an income deduction, so you need the tax "appetite" to take full advantage of this incentive - check with your tax advisor.) For residential clients, the basis for the credit is the full cost of your solar project, less any rebate that you might receive from the utility. Commercial clients, who must declare any rebate as income, do not need to deduct their rebate from the system cost when calculating the basis.
Once common everywhere, utility rebates are going the way of the dodo—with one or two notable exceptions. We have rank ordered the local utilities below, based on the reliability of their rebate program.
The big winner, again and by far, is the solar rebate program operated by our own Pasadena Water and Power. Year in and year out, PWP offers rebates to its customers in a transparent and consistent manner - something that cannot be said of any of its neighboring utilities.
As of this writing, PWP is offering a rebate of $0.45/Watt for both residential and commercial customers, and a rebate of $0.90/Watt to non-profit customers (who cannot take advantage of the federal tax credit). Alternatively, PWP also offers a performance-based incentive that is paid out over two years based on the actual production of the system. Residential and commercial customers are paid 14.4¢/kWh, whereas non-profit customers are paid 28.8¢/kWh.
LADWP offers a rebate, if you have the stamina to receive it. Vexed with the most bureaucratic process to be found this side of Orwell's 1984 dystopia, applying for and receiving a rebate from DWP often feels like a reward for a life well spent.
That said, LADWP is currently offering rebates of $0.30/Watt to residential customers, $0.40/Watt to commercial, and $1.15/Watt to non-profits. Just don't hold your breath.
These two municipal utilities often feel like one and the same given their similar approach to rebates - which is to say, now you see 'em, no you don't.
Unlike their neighbor to the east, neither BWP nor GWP is able to maintain a rebate program throughout the year. Instead, both open their rebate windows on or about July 1st (i.e., the start of their fiscal year) and then hand out money until it is gone, at which time the window slams shut until the following July 1.
Burbank's program operates under a lottery, which last year opened on July 1 and was exhausted by August 15. In addition, BWP imposes restrictions on the azimuth and pitch of rebated systems, despite their being no technical justification for doing so.
Glendale's program is even less transparent, and the installation/rebate process is outlined in a 23-step ode to inefficiency.
We will revisit both of these program in mid-June to provide what guidance we can to the residents of these two cities.
The "Solar Partnership Program" in Azusa is fully subscribed. There is a wait list that solar-hopeful customers can get on in the hope that at some point there will be rebate funds available - with no guarantees that there ever will be.
The Anaheim Solar Incentive Program was fully subscribed as of October 1, 2015 and is now closed, with no published plans to revise the program in the future.
SCE's rebates, which were part of the larger, California Solar Initiative, have expired and no new funds are anticipated. Of course, SCE customers still have the highest electricity rates around, which provides its own—albeit perverse—incentive to Go Solar!
We all know that solar is booming throughout the U.S. and especially here in California, but where in California exactly? What county leads the state in permitting new solar projects? Take a guess—the winner may surprise you!
We recently came across a publication that attempts to compile information regarding building permits throughout the State of California. The data reports the total number of permits issued by county and gives a valuation for those permits. However, since the value assigned to a project at the permit office is generally not verified against the actual price of the project, we aren't looking at that data. Instead, we simply focused on the total number of permits issued in March of 2014 for new, solar PV installations.
Go on, take a guess…
Did you see that coming? We certainly didn't!
Wow, San Bernardino you are kicking it, and in a big way, accounting for nearly 12% of the 3,901 new PV permits pulled statewide in March. The top ten counties listed here combined for 65% of all permits for the month. Solar hotspots indeed.
Still, I suspect it tells you something about the continuing horrors of doing business in the City of the Angels, when Los Angeles county, with five times the population of San Bernardino county, has roughly half as many permits in the month.
It will be interesting to follow this data going forward to see whether this month was a fluke or a continuing trend.
Yesterday we provided a recap of the results from the third tranche of LADWP's Feed-in Tariff (FiT). Today we are going to look at the status of the program overall, based on the newly instituted FiT Dashboard found on DWP's FiT website.
We are often critical of issues with utilities, whether its undue roadblocks to installing solar or outright hostility to the entire concept of net metering. So it is equally important to give credit where it is due, and the introduction of the solar "Dashboards" that are now featured at the DWP website is a great step forward in transparency and one that deserves to be widely imitated by DWP's peers. Here is how DWP explains the purpose of their FiT Dashboard:
LADWP is implementing the largest FiT program of any municipal utility in the nation. As it goes through growing pains, we continually work to improve the experience of customers and businesses who participate in it. The goal is to achieve the target level of solar energy, catalyze the solar industry and create jobs, and streamline the process to increase efficiency. This Dashboard outlines the issues, actions taken, and plans for improvement. The graphs show the current and targeted FiT processing timelines, schedule, and status of projects from each allocation.
The data discussed below is from the Dashboard update as of April 7, 2014.
While the complete flow chart for LA's FiT program is more than a shade Byzantine, the Dashboard highlights processing times associated with three key bottlenecks in that flow: the initial Technical Screening that takes place when a project application is first submitted, the interconnection study which determines the cost for the proposed project to tie into DWP's grid, and contract execution for the PPA between the project developer and DWP. For each of these milestones, DWP has a goal of completing the work in four weeks. In each case, DWP is missing those targets by a lot.
As of this writing, DWP is taking, on average, 6 weeks to complete the initial technical screening, 12 weeks (3x the goal) to complete the interconnection study and 14 weeks (3.5x the goal) to execute the contract! Unfortunately, the Dashboard does not reveal how much of that delay reflects internal DWP processing times versus delays caused by the developer—breaking these delays down to reveal how that works out would be an important modification to the Dashboard.
While we can understand how incomplete applications and general, technical complexity could add delays to the first two milestones, we are baffled by the 14 weeks of delay in executing the contracts. These are standard form contracts which, at least according to the program guidelines, are not subject to negotiation. What could possibly cause a three-and-a-half month delay in getting those contracts signed? Alas, the Dashboard does not reveal an answer to that question.
Which brings us to the status of all project applications in the queue. Here's DWP's chart (click for larger):
The chart shows all 22 applications from the third tranche in the initial technical review as would be expected. Shockingly, there are still 13 projects from the first tranche, over a year ago, that are still hung-up in that initial review!
Missing from this chart is the number of projects that are designated as cancelled. By our count, there are 47 projects that made it through the lottery but have been cancelled for whatever reason. (The most likely reason would be due to learning that the cost to interconnect to DWP's grid—the major wild card in the whole process—turned out to be too expensive. However, according to the data, only 21 of those 47 projects ever had the interconnection study completed, which means the majority of the cancellations had to be due to other, unreported, reasons.)
Seven projects from the first tranche are still waiting for the interconnection study to complete along with 37 from the second tranche. Thirty-four projects, 17 each from the first two tranches, are undergoing the mysterious contract review process. Only 9 projects have managed to get contracts executed and just two, both from the first tranche, have been commissioned. (The blue bars represent projects from the demonstration phase.)
That's a lot of solar in the pipeline—hopefully DWP can get the cancellation rate down and the completion rate up in the coming months.
Again to its credit, the Dashboard acknowledges that the program's overall status is: "Needs Improvement" and steps are underway to improve the process. Perhaps the most significant development is that DWP has assigned seven additional engineers to help work through this backlog. But the Dashboard makes clear that to get to target goals, DWP needs to climb a very steep hill: "To achieve target turn-around schedule, staff must complete 10 interconnection studies per week over the next 7 weeks and 10 contracts per week over the next 10 weeks."
Bottom line - DWP is working on a big and complex program and the performance to date has been less than desired, but the institutional attitude seems better than expected. Hopefully DWP will be able to deliver on its targets in the next 10 weeks.
Of course, DWP looks positively stellar compared to the FiT performance of its neighbors, a topic we will return to tomorrow.
There are multiple Feed-in Tariff (FiT) programs in the Run on Sun service area, although only one is actually doing anything. We decided it was time to check back in on these programs and to see if any of them are living up to their mandate to actually get solar installed in the L.A. Basin.
As of this writing, there are FiT programs hosted by four cities: Anaheim, Glendale, Los Angeles and Riverside. In this post we will check-in with Los Angeles and revisit the status of the other three later in the week.
Los Angeles brags that it has the largest FiT program in the country and that assertion is true, as far as it goes. We have written extensively about the LA FiT in the past, documenting how it came about and how it has recently survived challenges from the Rate Payer Advocate who insisted upon comparing energy costs from utility-scale projects with the "in-city" projects called for by the legislation that mandated the program.
LA's program has a 100 MW capacity goal and it divides that total into five, 20 MW allocations, or tranches, each to be offered roughly six months apart. The first tranche was to be offered at a base price for energy (BPE) of 17¢/kWh, with each subsequent tranche offered for a penny less than its predecessor. So far, three tranches have been made available, the latest just last month. As we have reported on both of the earlier two tranches (first tranche here and second tranche here), we will focus this post on the third tranche and overall program status.
The third tranche, after some delays due to City Council concerns, opened on March 17. The LADWP FiT website provides a PDF file of their spreadsheet showing the results of the tranche lottery, but unfortunately the underlying spreadsheet is not provided. This means that the PDF has to be converted back to a spreadsheet before any real work can commence, an unnecessary waste of effort.
Hey, LADWP listen up: if you are going to publish data, publish the spreadsheet, not just a PDF. (Thanks, I feel better now.)
Up until now the sense was that in order to have a shot you needed to submit your application as early in the five-day window as possible but these results belie that notion. While the window went up on March 17, none of the 45 applications submitted came in on the first day! The earliest application came in on the 18th at 11:53 (and, despite landing lottery number 21, missed the allocation cut-off) whereas the last application came in on the 21st at 3:46. Interestingly, the last twelve applications received all got that same time stamp, which means that despite their best efforts to the contrary, one quarter of all applications received were received at the last possible minute—and four of those twelve made the cut. More on this in a minute.
The 20 MW of capacity in the tranche are not just one big pool. Rather, 4 MW are set aside for "small" projects (i.e., capacity between 30 and 150 kW) and the remaining 16 MW to "large" projects (150 kW to 3 MW). So does size matter in terms of the likelihood of success? It certainly does—all four small projects made the cut, whereas only 19 out of 41 large projects did. Of the small category projects, two were right up against the size limit (145 and 149 kW, respectively), while the other two were much smaller: 79 and 37 kW. Frankly, in light of the relatively low payment in this tranche—a situation that will only get worse as the BPE declines in subsequent tranches—it will become harder and harder for small projects to pencil out. Given how badly the small category underperformed in this tranche—barely reaching 10% of the 4 MW capacity set aside—LADWP should re-think its approach here. If it is serious about maintaining a small projects category, it needs to increase the BPE for such projects. Otherwise it needs to revise its rules so that the excess allocation in the small category can be used by large projects that otherwise would not make the cut.
The large category is particularly interesting from the sense of who is playing. The 41 projects in the large category came from only 19 different sources, and the biggest player of all is none other than the City of Los Angeles itself! Here's the list:
Twelve of the nineteen large project applicants submitted only one project, three submitted two projects, one submitted three, two submitted four—and then there's LA's Harbor Department which submitted 12 with an average size over 1 MW each!
So how did these players fare in terms of making the cut? Well, the City only got four of its twelve projects in under the wire so one might think that their success was no more likely than anyone else. But here's an interesting thing—remember those twelve applications that all received the same timestamp of 3:46 p.m.on the last day to apply? You guessed it, all twelve of them came from the City of LA's Harbor Department! How curious.
The other successful players were Pasha Stevedoring (2 out of 3), OM Solar LLC (2 for 2), PLH LLC (2 of 4) and SunRay Power LLC (2 of 2).
Finally, we wanted to see where all of this solar is going and, given the success of the LA Harbor Department, not surprisingly the big winner is San Pedro, home to the Port of LA. Five projects will be located in San Pedro's 90731 zip code for a total capacity of 4.6 MW, and one more nearby in Wilmington. The Port is about to become something of a solar center in Los Angeles—a welcome departure from its past reputation as a toxic hot spot. Here's the map:
There's more to say about the state of LA's FiT, so we will save that for tomorrow, including a look at their new dashboard that seeks to provide greater transparency into how the overall program is doing.
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Antigua Sailing Week 2012 re-introduced the now-famous Round Antigua Race. The Round Antigua Race will return again in 2016 on Saturday, April 23 with more classes and more exciting racing than ever before!
The Round Antigua Race has been exciting and popular with many Antigua Sailing Week participants for many years. In 2012 it was re-introduced in a new format which saw it become an optional race open to all yachts, whether or not entered in Antigua Sailing Week, which is held on the Saturday before Antigua Sailing Week began. This optional race is scored separately from the full week's racing so the results have no impact on the overall results of the Regatta.
Classes are expected to include big boat and racing, sport boat, cruising, multihull, bareboat and classic classes. With Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta concluding only a few days before the Round Antigua Race, the race provides an ideal way for many classics to complete their Caribbean racing season so all classic yachts are welcome and encouraged to enter this exciting one-day race. The race will also provide an excellent day of practice for boats preparing to compete in Antigua Sailing Week's full week of racing, without being concerned that the scoring of this race will impact their week's results.
In 2015 Lloyd Thornburg's MOD 70 trimaran Phaedo^3 smashed the existing overall Round Antigua Race record with an elapsed time of 3 hours, 26 minutes and 9 seconds and won the Trophy for best elapsed time in the Race. We hope he and his team will return in 2016 to attempt to beat their own record!
We encourage yachtsmen to take on the challenge of breaking the existing Round Antigua Race monohull elapsed time record, currently held by the overall winner of Antigua Sailing Week 2011, the Farr-designed 115-foot, Sojana, which completed the race in 4 hours, 37 minutes and 43 seconds in 2009. John Paul Riviere's Dolphin 100 Nomad IV was the winner of the Yachting World Trophy for best monohull elapsed time around Antigua in 2015, although with light winds she was unable to break Sojana's previous record set in 2009.
The Antigua Race will be followed by an awards presentation to be held in conjunction with the Antigua Sailing Week Welcome Party on the evening of Saturday, April 25, following completion of the race. Prizes will also be awarded to the overall corrected time winner, the monohull corrected time winner and to winners of 1st through 3rd places in each class.
To enter the Round Antigua Race click here.


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Published on April 05, 2013
Digby mayor Ben Cleveland gets a tour of the Medibus trailer from program director Miriam Beach.
Jonathan Riley
Published on April 05, 2013
The Medibus trailer was in Digby Tuesday, April 2 just to let people get inside and see what it is all about.
Jonathan Riley
Published on April 05, 2013
Medibus wants to provide health care services to small communities with their fleet of four 300-square-foot trailers.
Jonathan Riley
Private company wants to bring health care to small centres
The future of health care was parked in front of Digby town hall for a day.
Medibus is a private company providing mobile space and equipment for health care professionals.
They haul a 30-foot trailer behind a dually pick-up truck.
The trailer is a 300-square-foot ŌĆ£mobile telehealth platformŌĆØŌĆöcurrently the trailers are rigged up with gear for collecting blood samples and for general medical examinations. They also have a room equipped with the latest secure-video teleconferencing equipment to allow collaboration between a nurse practitioner and a physician for example.
The idea is to take the doctorŌĆÖs office to the patientsŌĆÖ communities instead of having patients drive to central facilitiesŌĆöa kind of modern day house call.
Dr. Ken Buchholz spoke to both Digby municipal councils on Tuesday, April 2.
ŌĆ£Medibus is one little solution to fill a few little gaps,ŌĆØ he told the councils.
He said the goal of the visit was to build familiarity with a new and innovative way of offering health care services.
ŌĆ£Our biggest obstacle right now is acceptance,ŌĆØ said Buchholz. ŌĆ£People need to get familiar with our service and we need to learn how best to engage each community.ŌĆØ
The service started in the St. MargaretŌĆÖs Bay/ Tantallon area as a way to save people from driving into the city to get blood work done and for water testing.
They currently have four trailers and offer blood collection services, water testing and wellness clinics in outlying areas of the Halifax Regional Municipality and in Bridgewater.
ŌĆ£As we began talking with district health authorities (DHAs), the question quickly became: ŌĆśWhat else can Medibus do?ŌĆÖŌĆØ said Buchholz.
TheyŌĆÖd like to offer more services, like foot care, infant hearing screening, pulmonary testing, flu clinics or basic primary health care services; and theyŌĆÖd like to offer their services all across the province.
TheyŌĆÖd like to see DHAs, like our South West Health, rent the bus and provide outreach programs with dieticians or physiotherapists on board, for example.
But some services are out of their league. Buchholz said in response to a question that dialysis requires a bigger more expensive set up ŌĆō something truly of bus-size or bigger.
ŌĆ£ThatŌĆÖs not something we could do,ŌĆØ he said.
Buchholz, who practices in Annapolis and supports the nurse practitioners and paramedics on Long Island via telehealth, said Medibus is an efficient and cost-effective way to provide health care in smaller centres.
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ŌĆ£Small communities canŌĆÖt afford to build static clinics,ŌĆØ he said. ŌĆ£Our mobile platform saves the DHAs the expense of setting up expensive offices.ŌĆØ
Buchholz said Medibus works like any private doctorŌĆÖs office ŌĆō services covered by MSI donŌĆÖt cost the patient, but other services, like cosmetic surgeries or foot care do.
To collect blood, Medibus needs agreements with each local DHA. The blood-collection and water testing are only one part of the business model ŌĆō physicians or nurse practitioners could provide health care without an agreement with the local DHA.
The whole reason, however, for TuesdayŌĆÖs visit was to explain the service and start a dialogue about how and if it might work in the Digby area.
ŌĆ£WeŌĆÖre interested in collaborating and working on local strengths,ŌĆØ said Buchholz. ŌĆ£ItŌĆÖs important to us to understand the needs of each community, to not be competing, to be not be seen to be competing, to not be duplicating any services.ŌĆØ
For now Medibus is waiting to see what gaps they can fill.
They started with discussions with the Department of Health, they talked to various regulatory bodies to make sure they and their staff were adhering to the rules and they have had introductory discussions with DHAs.
Now they are starting to let communities know about the service and looking for opportunities.
ŌĆ£Now we hope people will talk it up,ŌĆØ said Buchholz. ŌĆ£Talk is what we want. We hope the councils will go out and engage people in dialogue about this.ŌĆØ
Warden Linda Gregory said she welcomes the initiative.
ŌĆ£It would be a benefit to the community, itŌĆÖd be an asset for South West Health,ŌĆØ she said. ŌĆ£IŌĆÖd like council to discuss sending a letter of support.ŌĆØ
Mayor Ben Cleveland said it is a ŌĆ£neat conceptŌĆØ.
ŌĆ£Especially in outlying areas, with the ageing population, if this can save them the time and cost and expense of travelling and make it easier for them to get the care they need, so people will actually get the care they need, then it will save us all money in the end,ŌĆØ said Cleveland.