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Community Solar Power Overview

Prepared For: Talking Green

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Agenda

•Current Energy Challenges

•Advantages of Community Solar Arrays

•Who is Clean Energy Collective (CEC)?

•How It Works

•Summary

Current Energy Challenges

•Rising energy prices

•Increasing Environmental Awareness

•Many obstacles to going solar may exist

–Aesthetics

–Roof design and orientation

–Maintenance

–Price

–Building lessee

The Solution - Community Solar with the CEC

Tom & Tina Smith

Colorado MountainCollege

Alpine Bank

The Jones Family

Routt County

SOLAR POWERReinvented

Advantages of Community Solar

•Energy Savings

–Monthly electric bill credits

–Power credit rate that protects against inflation

–Tax savings from depreciation expense(commercial customers)

–Short payback period of initial investment

–With financing, can acquire with little money down andstill achieve immediate savings

Advantages of Community Solar

•Offsite Solar Benefits

–Anyone can participate, regardless of roof design,direction, shading, etc.

–Allows lessees and lessors to participate – anyone whopays a utility bill.

–No aesthetic or structural integrity issues

–Comprehensive operations and maintenance programincluded

–Lower costs from economies of scale

Advantages of Community Solar

•Flexibility

–Bill credit can easily be transferred to any meter on theutility’s network.

–Can be sold to another user if owner moves outside ofthe area, or has a reduced energy need.

About CEC

•Clean Energy Collective (CEC) was founded in 2009

•CEC provides easy access to locally produced solar energy

•We pioneered country’s first “community-owned solararrays”

•Over 90 power producing solar systems online or underdevelopment, representing 160MW of

capacity

•Currently serving customers of 25

utilities in 11 states

How Does it Work?

•YVEA Community Solar Array – 577kW of clean power capacity

•Clean Solar Power is sold to YVEA under a 25-year agreement with the option toextend the program

•Any YVEA residential or commercial customer can purchase panels in the YVEAcommunity solar power array

•Customers receive monthly electric bill credits on their YVEA bill

•CEC maintains the community solar array for optimal performance and savings

How Does it Work?

•Array located on City of Craig land

•Approximately 4 acres

•Panel type: primarily 305-watt Jinko Solar modules

•Panel #: approx. 2,000

•Price: $2.56/watt

How It Works

•Monthly Bill Credits

–YVEA charges Customer for the actual energy usage under itsprevailing tariff rates.

–YVEA credits Customer for the amount of energy produced byits portion of the solar array at the program’s credit rate.

–Initial credit rate is $.10/kwh, higher than the retail ratecharged, and will rise with the retail rate once the retail rateequals the credit rate.

–Excess credits are rolled over and applied to future electricbills.

How It Works

•Operations & Maintenance (O&M) Trust

–CEC is responsible for the ongoing operations and maintenance ofthe solar array.

–To ensure that maintenance is provided over the life of the array,CEC establishes a separate O&M Trust and Trust account.

–The Trust holds all of rights to the PPA, lease, insurance andmanufacturers warranties

–The Trust account holds the funds necessary to pay for themaintenance, insurance, property taxes and lease costs.

–The Trust account is funded with an initial contribution by CEC andongoing contributions from the production of the array.

Summary

•Lock in low energy costs for a long time (50 years)

•No need to install anything on customer premise

•Professionally Maintained

•Rebates, Discounts and Credits are instantly included in purchaseprice

•Optimal Production & Longer Life

•Transferable to Other YVEA Utility Customers

•If customers move within YVEA service area, the credits move withthem

•Everyone can OWN clean energy and save money!