2. Photon Power

3. A Power-Hungry World

4. Why Invest In Failing Centrally-Controlled Infrastructure? Ageing Grid, Exceeding Life Expectancy: $17 Trillion (2013) Needed Globally

5. Energy Delivery of The Future

6. Drivers Of Change  Falling cost  Rate hikes – 28% by 2018 in B.C.  Grid parity – 75% in 18 months.  B.C is already there !  Incentives  Fossil fuels – Climate Change

8. How do Solar PV Modules Work?

9. Large Scale Commercial

10. T’Souke First Nation: Population 250. Plan to reduce energy consumption by 75% and then net zero.  75 kW of solar

11. Small Scale Residential

12. 3 kW (12 Panel) Grid Tie System

13. 10 kW (40 panel) Grid Tie System

14. Process  Yearly Consumption Budget Replacement decision  Physical site analysis – sun exposure, obstructions, space, roof vs ground, stresses re wind, structural issues, visual impacts, neighbours, bylaws, security and other considerations  Determine system size, number of panels, wiring requirements, location.  Coordinate the install, permits and inspections necessary to complete.

15. Traditional Systems

16. Microinverter System

18. Advantages Of Grid Tie Microinverters  240 volt AC, not 600 volt DC  Lower installation cost  Partial shading not a problem  Redundancy—no system failure vs string inverters  Cost for system units on par with string inverters

19. Racking System With Microinverters

20. Panel Mount over Microinverter

21. Before installing PV, reduce consumption

23. Do we have enough Sunshine?

24. Look at Germany

25. Solar power works on cloudy days! The small demonstration inverter, rated at 1100 Watts is putting out close to 50% capacity. On a full-sized system (10 kW), this would be 4745 Watts. That’s enough to run 47 100 Watt light bulbs at the same time.

26. To Battery or not to Battery

27.  Costly, high maintenance, and cannot transfer power for more than a few days. Not enviro friendly.  Use the Grid as a battery.  Accounting shifts summer surplus to winter deficit.

29. Three Meter Options  Analog: No credit for surplus  RF off: Reading fee  RF on: Automatic credit for surplus

30. The Fortis /B.C Hydro Tariff  To qualify for net metering, a Grid Tie System must have an approved bi-directional (smart) meter installed.  From The Fortis Net Metering Guidelines http://www.fortisbc.com/Electricity/CustomerS ervice/NetMeteringProgram/Docum http://www.fortisbc.com/Electricity/CustomerS ervice/NetMeteringProgram/Docum  Section 3.1.5 "It is required that the customer's facility be equipped with a bi- directional meter (or a meter approved by a Fortis designer)

31. Photon Power

32. - GabEnergy - A Non Profit Society The purposes of the Society are to:  promote and facilitate the development of sustainable alternative energy sources for Gabriola;  conduct educational outreach for alternative energy projects;  build skills and expertise on Gabriola for alternative energy development; and  facilitate the provision of low cost infrastructure for alternative energy systems throughout British Columbia.

33. How  Portal connecting buyers to the wholesaler – not resellers  Provide advice, coordinate ordering, shipment and delivery of system components.  To cover fixed costs, a five percent donation for above services is requested.

34. *Prices do not include shipping, GST, installation & donation.

36. The Economic Case - Austin Texas

37. Levelized Cost (LCOE) for Solar  LCOE is the industry standard for analyzing delivered energy costs.  Cost divided by power produced  10 kW.h system on Gabe  $26,000.00 / 275,000 kW.h  $0.09 per kW.h

38. Levelized Cost (LCOE) for Solar  LCOE for this installation is just Nine cents Per kW.h Guaranteed for 25 Years into the future! *  No other Energy Source can match that; not even close!

41.  LCOE of $0.09 per kW.h  Installed cost no more than $2.60 / watt  In fact we just did an install where the LCOE was $0.07 per kW.h and the installed cost was just $2.04 per watt! The Numbers….. What To Look For

42. Other Approaches IPP Over 1 MW Municipal / Private Kimberley

43. 1 MW 4,200 Panels Azimuth tracking

46. Net Metering  Up to 100 kW  Existing service to property  Physical size  400 panels - twice the size of a basketball court

48. Net Meter

49. Earth Heartbeat

50. Investor Co-op

51.  Many Models: Europe, Ontario  Shares, usually a module multiple  Regular stock options  Member owned and controlled

53. Community Project

54.  One time initiative  Salt Spring School  On going small administration

56. Community Co-op

57.  Donations  Membership owned & controlled  Expands over time  Directs benefits to a mix of community programs  Volunteer Board & Admin  Eventually will need paid staff

59. Site Selection

61.  Physical parameters  Private, Crown or other  Legal, lease, covenants, rate of return  Eventual replacement of infrastructure

62. Technical, Regulatory

63.  Bylaws  ALR  Tax, zoning implications

64. Legal

65.  Legal Structure  Business details

66. Communications

67.  Internal  External  Expansion, fund raising

76. www.gabenergy.com