CA Extends Incentives for Distributed Generation

California’s former Governor Davis signed the bill AB 1685 in October, extending the California Public Utilities Commission’s Self-Generation Incentive Program for an additional four years. The bill allocates roughly $500 million through 2008 for businesses and local governments to install distributed electricity-generation systems. Over the past two years, 70% of the available money has funded the installation of solar photovoltaic systems, increasing the state’s commercial-scale solar market by 1000%.