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Boston Area
Solar Energy Association
Forum: 7 pm,
Thursday, May
12th, 2016
Value of
Solar/Distributed
Energy Resources
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The Boston Area Solar Energy
Association is proud to welcome Karl Rabago,
known as the foremost national authority on
Value of Solar calculation methodology. Our Net
Metering Solar Task Force's first recommendation
called for a Value of Solar study to inform fair
compensation for solar energy production by
tying it to the real "value and impact of solar
in Massachusetts". This is where solar policy is
going, graduating from arbitrary one-for-one
kilowatt-hour compensation - as if a clean
energy kilowatt-hour has no more value than one
generated burning polluting fossil
fuels.
A weak solar bill just passed (April
11th), granting an anemic raise in net metering
caps, which unfortunately lasted only 2 weeks
and 3 days until the cap was hit once again
(April 28th), while also slashing compensation
for low income and community shared solar
projects. Next, the legislature plans to craft
an 'omnibus energy bill', figuring it had got
solar out of the way. Can we move to inject the
sanity of Value of Solar (Distributed
Generation) into this omnibus bill?
Karl
Rabago has a knack for cutting through
complexity to clearly and concisely present the
broad view of how distributed energy resources
are integrated from an economic and ratepaying
perspective, honed through deep career
experience in utility systems and policy work.
(View Mr. Rabago's recent address to the Rhode
Island state legislature for a primer, here.) Proper
valuation of distributed energy resources is
essential to the health of the new energy
economy, as we transition from fossil fuel based
centralized generation to add more and more
local, clean energy.
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Location:
First Parish in Cambridge Unitarian
Universalist; 3 Church
Street, Harvard Square
Time: Doors
open at 7:00 p.m.; Presentation begins at 7:30
p.m
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Karl R.
Rábago is the Executive Director of the Pace
Energy and Climate Center, at the Pace Law
School in White Plains, New York. The PECC
mission is to protect the earth's environment
through solutions that transform the ways that
society supplies and consumes energy. Karl has
some 25 years experience in energy and climate
policy markets. Karl serves as Chair of the
Board of the Center for Resource Solutions, a
San Francisco-based non-governmental
organization that works to advance voluntary
clean energy markets. He also sits on the Board
of the Interstate Renewable Energy Council
(IREC). Karl also is co-director and principal
investigator for the Northeast Solar Energy
Market Coalition, a US DOE SunShot Initiative
Solar Market Pathways
project.
His past
positions include Commissioner, Texas Public
Utility Commission; Deputy Assistant Secretary
at the US Department of Energy; Vice President
of Distributed Energy Services at Austin Energy;
Director of Regulatory Affairs for the AES
Corporation and AES Wind; and Managing Director
& Principal of the Rocky Mountain Institute.
A graduate of Texas A&M University with a
Bachelor of Business Administration degree in
Business Management, Karl is an attorney
(University of Texas Law School, J.D. with
Honors) with post-doctorate degrees in
environmental (LL.M., Pace University School of
Law) and military law (LL.M., US Army Judge
Advocate General's School). A veteran of more
than 12 years in the US Army, he served as an
Armored Cavalry officer and member of the Judge
Advocate General's Corps, and is Airborne and
Ranger qualified.
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