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The Building Industry Institute (BII) is pleased to provide the following summary report from our 2001-2002 Million Solar Roofs (MSR) project. During this time period, the BII and our MSR management team negotiated groundbreaking benefits for solar builders-benefits never before offered to solar builders in California. We were able to persuade six local California governments to offer new benefits to builders who offer photovoltaics (PV) on new residential homes.
These six local governments include some of the busiest, fastest-growing communities in the State of California-the Cities of Corona, Lake Elsinore, Palmdale, Palm Desert, and Paso Robles and the County of Riverside. We also promoted photovoltaic policy, and worked on photovoltaic technical issues with leading production builders likely to build in these six jurisdictions in the future. These builders include Pardee Homes, Griffin Communities, Centex and Estrella Homes.
Through individual meetings with City and County officials in each of the six jurisdictions, our MSR team negotiated special benefits for solar builders. These benefits include faster plan check, reduced and/or waived fees, guaranteed (special) inspections and formal recognition. In the past, these benefits were only offered to homebuilders who build energy-efficiently and substantially above (15-30 percent) California's aggressive Title 24 Energy Code, and who benefit from third party inspections of installed energy efficiency improvements. MSR team members were able to arrange these benefits for solar builders, based on the economic and environmental community-wide benefits that accrue from solar building.
MSR Final Report
We invite your comments and suggestions. For more information, please contact Rob Hammon at 209.474.8446, or Rob@comfortwise.com. Thank you for visiting our site and please stay tuned for more information about our MSR project!
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