Application tips
- Please be complete in your response to each question to convey a thorough understanding of your project.
- You are strongly encouraged to submit attachments with your completed application to support your proposal, including schematics, system design drawings, photographs, narratives, permits, renewable energy project construction estimates or bids, letters of support, etc. and any other supplemental information you consider useful in the evaluation of your project.
- Your application should include clearly stated objectives, specific plans to achieve them, site assessments, preliminary designs, construction plans, evidence of your project’s feasibility including permitting, interconnection arrangements, and contractor/project manager experience, an expected installation timetable and itemized project budget (i.e. equipment costs, installation costs, future operating and maintenance costs, permitting costs and other relevant costs).
- Describe all sources of financing or revenue, including that which has already been spent on the project.
- Demonstration projects must include a plan of how the knowledge gained will be used to build the renewable energy market.
- We strongly encourage our applicants to seek funding or in-kind donations from a variety of sources to strengthen the application. Project applicants may be chosen to receive full or partial funding based on the amount requested.
Helpful links and other resources
- The Database of State Incentives for Renewable Energy(DSIRE), a comprehensive, user-friendly and free source of information on state, local, and selected federal incentives that promote renewable energy.
- The National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s Renewable Energy Project Finance website – a resource for exploring funding and financing options.
- Customer Generation – Pacific Power customer generation information. Pacific Power Net-metering /Interconnection Requirements information.
- The Department of Energy’s Solar Powering Your Community: A Guide for Local Governments. The guide is intended to help communities accelerate their adoption of solar energy technologies and help communities better understand the steps necessary to permit and license solar energy installations and how to streamline those processes. It is available online.
Questions about the fund award, the application and the funding process should be submitted to blueskyprojects@pacificpower.net.
