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SolarTech Q&A with William DeGrandis and Matt Raeburn of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

SolarTech is proud to have worked with two leading legal firms: Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy LLP and Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP on implementing standard PPA templates that can substantially reduce the legal review time, minimize associated legal costs and shorten the negotiation timeline.

Here's a excerpt from our Q&A with William DeGrandis and Matt Raeburn of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP.

 

 

 

SolarTech Aims for 3GW of PV in California by 2017

Eric Wesoff - July 31, 2009 - Blog

Most solar conferences are PowerPoint marathons, interrupted by coffee breaks and low-grade lunch food.

SolarTech forums don't settle for that. Except for maybe the food part.

These are not high-tech meetings with deep dives into Tellurium supplies - they are nitty-gritty forums for installers, utilities, and regulators to figure out how to bust through the roadblocks that prevent residential solar in the U.S. reaching wider and faster deployment (see California's Top Solar Cities).

SolarTech's charter is to effect change in the solar installation process - and the organization wants concrete results.

One of it's stated goals is a 50% decrease in interconnection cycle time by 2012. Another long-term aim on the SolarTech team is to define a plan to get to 3 gigawatts of PV by 2017.

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