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Abstract: . . . application identified, with perhaps the greatest potential to succeed. The DOA also wished to leverage DSARE’s funds by building upon a pre-existing Energy Center of Wisconsin/utility “Daylighting Collaborative” program. Other non-electrical applications include solar hot water, solar space heating, and clean wood stoves – applications that are perhaps more often targeted through energy efficiency programs (where they may be among the least cost-effective applications) rather than renewable energy programs (where they can be among the most cost-effective applications). While the original DSARE program . . . . . . renewable energy administrator indicates that non-electrical applications of renewable energy will not fall under the purview of the renewable energy administrator. It appears, however, that non-electrical projects may be funded by the residential and major markets administrators, and the renewable energy administrator is free to negotiate support for such projects while coordinating with those two funds. 107 . . . . . . LBNL-47705 Clean Energy Funds: An Overview of State Support for Renewable Energy Mark Bolinger and Ryan Wiser Environmental Energy Technologies Division Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 1 Cyclotron Road, MS 90-4000 Berkeley, CA 94720 with Lew Milford and Michael Stoddard Clean Energy Funds Network and Kevin . . . . . . (with some utility administration during a transition period) RI WI 9 These independent third party organizations are or will operate under the oversight of state agencies, such as the PUC (Oregon and Pennsylvania) or Department of Administration (Wisconsin). 9 10 III. Program Status and Design A. Overview of Fund Status For the most part, states are still in the very early stages of obligating program funds and the level of structure and detail in each program’s implementation plan varies widely. Eight states – California, Connecticut, Illinois, Montana, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, . . . . . . $588,000 in 2002, and $980,000 in 2003 to support renewables. Thus, total statewide support for renewables should be roughly $2.3 million in 2001, $3.2 million in 2002, and $4.8 million in 2003 and thereafter. It appears likely that municipal utilities and cooperatives will opt out of participation in the statewide DOA program, and will instead continue to administer their own programs. In an abrupt about-face for Wisconsin, the RFP for the renewable energy administrator indicates that non-electrical applications of renewable energy will not fall under the purview of the renewable energy administrator. . . . --3000,5,300,2905,214777
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