Feedback on Policy Ideas for an Oregon Solar Agenda What you think of these policy ideas from solar advocates and business people all over Oregon? Question Title * 1. Push for Net Zero Building Codes by 2030 with solar onsite requirement Not a Great Idea An OK Idea A Good Idea A Very Good Idea A Great Idea Feel free to add some additional comments if you like. Question Title * 2. Extend the Residential Energy Tax Credit (RETC) Not a Great Idea An OK Idea A Good Idea A Very Good Idea A Great Idea Feel free to add some additional comments if you like. Question Title * 3. Modify the mission of the Oregon Public Utility Commission to allow consideration of environmental impacts (modeled after the mission of California Public Utility Commission) Not a Great Idea An OK Idea A Good Idea A Very Good Idea A Great Idea Feel free to add some additional comments if you like. Question Title * 4. Create a tax incentive for commercial solar. Not a Great Idea An OK Idea A Good Idea A Very Good Idea A Great Idea Feel free to add some additional comments if you like. Question Title * 5. Accurately identify the full costs and benefits of all resources (account for the environmental externalities of fossil fuels) Not a Great Idea An OK Idea A Good Idea A Very Good Idea A Great Idea Feel free to add some additional comments if you like. Question Title * 6. Extend property tax exemption for solar. Not a Great Idea An OK Idea A Good Idea A Very Good Idea A Great Idea Feel free to add some additional comments if you like. Question Title * 7. Incentives for multi-family housing to install solar on apartment buildings. Not a Great Idea An OK Idea A Good Idea A Very Good Idea A Great Idea Feel free to add some additional comments if you like. Question Title * 8. Install solar on every new house worth more than $250,000. Not a Great Idea An OK Idea A Good Idea A Very Good Idea A Great Idea Feel free to add some additional comments if you like. Question Title * 9. All marijuana farms to be powered by solar. Not a Great Idea An OK Idea A Good Idea A Very Good Idea A Great Idea Feel free to add some additional comments if you like. Question Title * 10. Change building codes to increase energy efficiency and solar readiness in all new residential and commercial construction. Not a Great Idea An OK Idea A Good Idea A Very Good Idea A Great Idea Feel free to add some additional comments if you like. Question Title * 11. Bring PACE (Property-Assessed Clean Energy) financing to Oregon - ties cost of solar installation to building's property tax. Not a Great Idea An OK Idea A Good Idea A Very Good Idea A Great Idea Feel free to add some additional comments if you like. Question Title * 12. Mandate comparison of electric costs on basis of carbon. Not a Great Idea An OK Idea A Good Idea A Very Good Idea A Great Idea Feel free to add some additional comments if you like. Question Title * 13. Require all new commercial construction/buildings to produce x% of their electricity onsite. Not a Great Idea An OK Idea A Good Idea A Very Good Idea A Great Idea Feel free to add some additional comments if you like. Question Title * 14. Ensure community solar gets going strong. Not a Great Idea An OK Idea A Good Idea A Very Good Idea A Great Idea Feel free to add some additional comments if you like. Question Title * 15. Push for performance-based ratemaking. Not a Great Idea An OK Idea A Good Idea A Very Good Idea A Great Idea Feel free to add some additional comments if you like. Question Title * 16. Greater access to solar investments for low-income and nonprofit groups in Oregon. Not a Great Idea An OK Idea A Good Idea A Very Good Idea A Great Idea Feel free to add some additional comments if you like. Question Title * 17. Create a bond-based fund for community solar. Not a Great Idea An OK Idea A Good Idea A Very Good Idea A Great Idea Feel free to add some additional comments if you like. Question Title * 18. Create multi-gigawatt solar capacity goal with SRECs as a policy tool with a distributed generation and storage carveout. Not a Great Idea An OK Idea A Good Idea A Very Good Idea A Great Idea Feel free to add some additional comments if you like. Question Title * 19. Have the state issue revenue bonds backed by commercial customer power purchase argreements to finance 60% of the cost of commercial, industrial and ag projects (up to 5 MW). Include on-bill collection. Not a Great Idea An OK Idea A Good Idea A Very Good Idea A Great Idea Feel free to add some additional comments if you like. Question Title * 20. Decreasing the costs associated with research and manufacturing of solar installation and PV panels. Not a Great Idea An OK Idea A Good Idea A Very Good Idea A Great Idea Feel free to add some additional comments if you like. Question Title * 21. Explore a Resource Value of Solar Tariff. Not a Great Idea An OK Idea A Good Idea A Very Good Idea A Great Idea Feel free to add some additional comments if you like. Question Title * 22. Stop unbundling RECs for residential solar projects (allow homeowners to register and sell their RECs). Not a Great Idea An OK Idea A Good Idea A Very Good Idea A Great Idea Feel free to add some additional comments if you like. Question Title * 23. Eliminate the PUCs control over pricing of solar. Not a Great Idea An OK Idea A Good Idea A Very Good Idea A Great Idea Feel free to add some additional comments if you like. Question Title * 24. Eliminate the PUCs control over pricing of solar. Not a Great Idea An OK Idea A Good Idea A Very Good Idea A Great Idea Feel free to add some additional comments if you like. Done