ANNOUNCEMENTS!

Content Updates 11/24/2011

Steering elections have been completed. Bill Feldman has been reelected, Charles DiStefano & Carlo P. Lanza have joined for the first time. We thank both Mike Bailis and John Moriarity for their service.

Long Island Streamlined Permitting has been finalized, please see the announcement and download the PDF of the official letters and draft document for towns & villages to adopt on the Recent News page.

Many LIPA changes and upgrades are coming for both Siebel and EPBB, as announced at the meeting with training tentatively set for December and January with a possible go live date of January 10th. Please stay tuned for announcements by Email.

Electrical LIcensing and Third Party Solar Ownership (PPA's and Leasing) are hot topics for discussion, please post your thoughts on the LISEIA forum or join us at our next meeting.

Updates 8/25/2011 **** IMPORTANT - ADDITIONAL DATE CHANGE FOR NEXT MEETING ****

September's LISEIA General Members Meeting for members, associates and those interested in LISEIA HAS BEEN MOVED TO Tuesday September 20th. This is due to a CONFLICT WITH THE NYSEIA Annual Members Meeting ON Wednesday September 21st.

Updates 7/18/2011
New Jobs Board help wanted ads posted.

Updates 7/6/2011
Annual Barbecue & Members Meeting is July 20, 2011! Come join us, see calendar and event details page for information. Members please vote on the preliminary rule changes; our new online voting tool allows you to vote remote online if you wish, see Secretaries' Email for Information and access. Jerry Flaherty is representing our interests for NEC changes in upcoming versions, please speak with him if you have suggestions or if you have questions about the 2011 code (thank you Jerry!).

Updates 6/18/2011
Energy Gallery picture added. Jobs Board Updated more help wanted.

Updates 5/16/2011
Jobs board updated. May 2011 steering minutes updated. April 2011 steering minutes noted as not yet available online.

Updates 4/24/2011
Massive updates including:
-Menu system entries updated for better access & pages altered to reduce duplication.
-P 2 P Video added to Multimedia page.
-The Energy Gallery located in the Education Menu replaces Contractors Gallery. All new scrolling photo gallery format, with new content from quite a few members. A separate Associates section with new content.
-Consumer Info pages added, with money saving coupons, contractor links, how solar works, incentive and financing page, link to DSIRE (TM) incentives website.
-Changes and $500 coupon in support of LISEIA advertising on Newsday.com added.
-Contact Us page rewritten.
-Personnel page under Governance rewritten, contact phone numbers for steering, executive board and committee chairs added.
-New committees and chairpersons updated and added to the personnel page.
-Jobs Board page under Resources activated, free help wanted ads have been posted already.
-Expanded use of graphics and LISEIA logo.
-New class entries posted in the Calendar.

Updates 3/23/2011
-New LISEIA Logo online.
-"Jerry Flaherty's Code Corner" is accessible on the Code Corner page.
Updates 2/21/2011
LIPA Rebate & FAQ page: Separate download button added for LIPA Array Sizing Worksheet .pdf download.
Updates 01/19/2011:
Minutes of 1/5/2011 Steering Committee meeting uploaded.
Updates 1/2/2011:
Official LIPA Rebate Process .pdf replaced 'draft' document posted on 1/1/2011.
Updates 1/1/2011:
LIPA 2011 procedures changes loaded *** This document is a DRAFT version. But is essentially complete and should be used ***. Steering members list updated for Nov elections. 2011 LISEIA meetings schedule updated in Calendar. E.T.C. courses added to calendar.

  **** IMPORTANT LIPA 2011 PROGRAM UPDATES FROM 1/2/2011***

New 1/2/2011 guidelines can be downloaded from the LIPA REBATE & FAQ page. They are accessed via the red "LIPA Rebate Process (official)" button. It is only slightly different than the December 2010 version posted previously. The DRAFT text has been removed from the pages, the check list page has had the file naming conventions added to it to ease processing and reduce errors.

The main changes from 2010 are that automated Shade Analysis reporting and Array Sizing Worksheets are now mandatory and must be submitted with all applications, even if you are not adding 'extra' panels to compensate for shade.

Note that on 1/2/2011 the non-draft version replaced the draft version posted on New Year's day.