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168 CALIFORNIA SOLAR INITIATIVE PROGRAM

critical equipment, acts of nature, and so on. All correspondence associated with the
delay must be transmitted by letter.

Incentive Payments

On completion of final field acceptance and submission of the above-referenced doc-
uments, for EPBB projects, the program administrator will within a period of 30 days
issue a complete payment. For PBI programs, the first incentive payment is issued
within 30 days of the first scheduled performance reading from the wattmeter. All
payments are made to the host customer or the designated agent.
In some instances, a host could ask the administrator to assign the entire payment
to a third party. For payment reassignment, the host must complete a special set of
forms provided by the administrator.
The EPBB one-time lump-sum payment calculation is based on the following formula:

EPBB incentive payment = final CSI system size × reserved EPBB incentive rate

PBI payments for PV systems delivering 100 kW or greater are made on a monthly
basis over a period of 5 years. Payment is based on the actual electric energy output of
the PV system. If chosen by the owner, systems delivering fewer than 100 kW also can
be paid on the PBI basis.
The PBI payment calculation is based on the following formula:

Monthly PBI incentive payment = reserved incentive rate × measured kWh output

In the event of PV system size change, the original reservation request forms must be
updated and the incentive amount recalculated.

Equipment Distributors

Eligible enterprise resource planning (ERP) manufacturers and companies who sell
system equipment must provide the CEC with the following information on the
equipment seller information form (CEC-1038 R4).

■ Business name, address, phone, fax, and e-mail address
■ Owner or principal contact
■ Business license number
■ Contractor license number (if applicable)
■ Proof of good standing in the records of the California Secretary of State, as
required for corporate and limited-liability entities
■ Reseller’s license number