{"id":1854,"date":"2011-06-24T14:10:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T18:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/transparency-is-key-steve-kalland-of-ncsc.html"},"modified":"2011-06-24T14:10:41","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T18:10:41","slug":"transparency-is-key-steve-kalland-of-ncsc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/transparency-is-key-steve-kalland-of-ncsc.html","title":{"rendered":"Transparency is key &mdash;Steve Kalland of NCSC"},"content":{"rendered":"The earth receives enough energy from the sun in one hour\nto power the whole world for a year, reminded Steve Kalland of\nthe\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncsc.ncsu.edu\/contactus.php\">\nNorth Carolina Solar Center (NCSC)<\/a> at the\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/06\/last-day-for-advance-rate-at-solar-summit.html\">\nSouthern Solar Summit<\/a>.\nSo how do we get solar energy deployed?\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncsc.ncsu.edu\/ncsc_staff_detail.php?staffid=16\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/www.ncsc.ncsu.edu\/admin\/include\/_upload\/media\/staff_pics\/StevePic.jpg\"><\/a>\nKalland said transparency is key.\n<p>\nOther speakers had said you could have too much transparency,\nbut Kalland pointed out that it was only through a hearing that\nNorth Carolina found out a major power company was going to use up its\nsolar energy credits years ahead of schedule, and without transparency\nthere couldn&#8217;t be real competition because the customers wouldn&#8217;t\nknow who had which prices.\n<p>\nWhat else does it take to make a state competitive in solar?\nKalland discussed this table (reformatted here from the copy of\nhis presentation he gave me):\n<blockquote>\n<H3>Foundational Steps to Focus on Solar<\/H3>\n<table>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<b>Installed Capacity<\/b>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<b>Manufacturing<\/b><\/td><\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\nInterconnection Standards\n<br><br>\nBase Resources (economic or voices)\n<br><br>\nEarly Adopters\n<br>\n<small>\nMilitary or Large Federal\n<br>\nHigh Tech Firms\n<br>\nCorporate Greens\n<\/small>\n<\/td><td>\nUniversity Partnership Opportunities\n<br><br>\nExisting presence of businesses in multiple fields (diversification)\n<\/td><\/tr><\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\nHe said a lot more, but that&#8217;s a very interesting table to\nconsider not only for a state, but for a region, like south Georgia,\nor a small metro area, like Valdosta MSA.\n<p>\nI know some people will react with: &#8220;but VSU is not a research university!&#8221;\nNope, but this could be a way to add some research capacity to VSU.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The earth receives enough energy from the sun in one hour to power the whole world for a year, reminded Steve Kalland of the North Carolina Solar Center (NCSC) at the Southern Solar Summit. 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