Bring Solar Home Campaign Success

bring solarhome Campaign Success New Installs PV, Solar Water Heating, Solar Attic Fans, Solar Pool Heating 80 contracts 3,700 web 959 applications (new installs) completed application views 655 304 applications applications completed completed Aug. 2010 Apг. Мау 2011 2011 Aug. 2011 Phase 1• Beta Test Phase 2 9 months ongoing As of 8/10/11 $$ $18,500 spent on advertising $60,000 for staff $1,161,864 given in CPS Energy rebates $2,299,032 in economic development $10,000 spent on advertising $20,000 for staff $117,360 given in CPS Energy rebates $255,448 in economic development created created Applicant Breakdown Top ZIP Codes of the first 500 applications **** avg age range: 40-60 78203 20 applications received |19% female 81% male 78219 19 applications received 78217 17 applications received 78215 15 applications received solarsapentanio.org CPS Energy Bill Insert Television Newspaper 19% 14% 10% | 7% 78213 13 applications received Top Referral Sources Timeline As of 8/10/11 SOLAR TRENDS IN SAN ANTONIO 521 How the Bring Solar Home Campaign has helped increase solar in San Antonio total kilowatts installed 5 pv installations 38 pv installations 157 17 pv installations installations* 2008 CPS Energy offers a $3.49/AC Watt solar rebate 2009 2010 2011 PV 80 Aug. 2011: BSH Campaign has received over 950 applications BSH CPS Energy solar rebate Campaign is launched is paused for 5 months ...and counting! * Approximately 150 addional applications were waiting to be processed at CPS Energy when their fiscal year ended in February 2011. San Antonio Credit Union begins offering the first "Solar Home Improvement Loan" as part of the campaign FY 2008 5 Total PV Rebates Paid CPS Energy Data is by fiscal year, with each year ending on January 31st. For example, FY 2008 ended on January 31, 2008. FY 2009 17 FY 2010 38 FY 2011 157 cps works for you FY 2012 As of 8/9/11 with 70 in queue 165 521 kilowatts =719,691 kwh of energy produced $64,772 per year, valued at 496 metric tons of of carbon dioxide emissions offset, equivalent to CO2 emissions from 1,154 barrels of oil and 55,635 gallons of gasoline Solar Attic Fans Solar Pool Heater www.bringsolarhome.com • (210) 22-SOLAR (76527) • [email protected] new installs resulting from the Bring Solar Home Campaign