SRECTrade Making Things Happen

It's been so hard moving the process forward so far because everything had to start with me -- the guy who knows nothing about what needs doing.

SRECTrade

That's changing, now that SRECTrade has been authorized (by us) to push the paperwork through so we can start earning SRECs (which they will sell for us at auction). Here's the letter I just received:

"Thank you for signing up for EasyREC with SRECTrade! We have received the enrollment forms you sent in and are in the process of setting up your GATS account.
The next step in the process is to send the Schedule A you completed to GATS via email. You will be cc'd on the email and GATS will ask you to respond, verifying that you wish to link your account to SRECTrade. After you respond to GATS, they will review and approve your account. Your facility will then be linked to SRECTrade's account, allowing us to transact and sell your credits easily. "

In other words, they're doing everything. What a relief. The SRECs should start rolling in soon.

Thanks SRECTrade, that was the smartest decision we made yet.

System Update

The electric meter on the side of the house currently reads 16976. That's about where it was in mid-August. That means that since then we've generated as much power as we used. At this rate we'll be pretty far in the black by the time the air-conditioning season comes around again.

This stuff really works...

Five Months Later -- State Certified

I received a letter from NJCEP today. We finally have a New Jersey Certification number for our system.

It's been five months and a day since we've been generating power, so forgive me if I'm not jumping up and down. If this were July I'd probably know exactly what to do to begin earning and selling SRECs. I'll have to brush up on it all over again.

No Change

No recent posts because there's been no change. The system continues to generate gobs of power, and we're still waiting for the state bureaucracy to certify our system...

Cranking the Power!

Yeah, I've been grumpy about system approval and SRECs and bureaucracy. There's one thing that I'm not grumpy about: how well the system works!

On a day like today -- not a cloud in the sky -- the electric meter is spinning backwards so fast that it looks like the blade on one of those meat slicers behind the deli counter.



Give me a few minutes with a whetstone and I'd have all I need to open a sandwich shop.

The meter reading is already back to what it read in mid-August. This system is generating way more power than we (a family of five) use and the clean energy we don't use is going back out onto the grid to be used by others.

Solar power is not reliable enough to be a huge component in any national energy plan but what's happening right here on my roof is definitely something to consider.

More Red Tape -- A Month's Worth

It'll be another 3-4 weeks, according to the note I just received from NCEP.

Dave,

There is a process that needs to take place before you will receive your NJ Certification #. The inspector has to send in your passed inspection report and than it needs to be processed and put into a check batch, at which time your NJ Cert # will be generated and you will received a letter in the mail with your assigned #. This will take approx 3-4 weeks.

T

Senior Operations Specialist

NJ Clean Energy Program

Passed State Inspection

The system passed inspection. I don't know when or how (or at least I didn't until I finally read this proclamation from the inspector a few minutes ago). So now that I have successfully begged for that, I will now turn my attention to begging NJCEP for a state certification number so we can start generating and selling SRECs.

Forgive me if I'm not jumping up and down and clicking my heels. Somehow it just doesn't seem like a great victory.