The Program Administrator has posted the video and presentation of the Vendor Manual Updates Review. Materials are available for review and can be downloaded using the links below.
There were two issues that were raised during the webinar that we wanted to follow up on and provide further clarification.
Interconnection: The requirement is that a signed interconnection agreement must be submitted before the close of submission window. Because this requirement is meant to demonstrate project maturity exceptions will be made for projects that were forced from the utility interconnection queue due to the utility’s queue management process. These projects need only demonstrate that they exited the interconnection queue involuntarily and have subsequently reapplied for interconnection. This further clarification has been made to the manual and can be found in version 3.1* on page 70 (Section 8.4) of the attached.
Participation Year: It was mentioned on the webinar that a correction may be needed in Section 15 of the Vendor Manual as to how participation year is defined. After referring back to the Revised Plan it was found that the Vendor Manual is correct in describing the participation year as follows:
“This timeline for these increasing annual percentage requirements will start with the beginning of construction of the Approved Vendor’s first project contracted under the Program”
The issue was actually on the Project Affidavit, which incorrectly described the participation year. An updated version of that document is attached and has also been updated on the website, please use this version moving forward.
*As a result of the clarification on interconnection, updates to Vendor Manual 3.0 have been made and is now Vendor Manual 3.1.