Ownership - Turn Key Operation
- Solar Stream Green Energy Group will design build and connect any desired system on a customers’ property
- Customer will receive at a project end a full working power generating system
- Solar Stream Green Energy Group will guarantee an 8% return on investment
Partnership – We share in the cost of building your best Solar PV power generation system
- Solar Stream Green Energy Group will sign a partnership contract with the property owner
- Both parties will contribute equally to the project
- Both parties will benefit from the proceeds of the government contract in their proportional equity stake in the project
Outright Lease – You risk nothing. Only gain! We want to lease your roof for 20 years
- 20 Year Lease irrevocable on both sides. Make money from leasing out your roof with no-risk only gain.
- Solar Stream Green Energy Group will pay 50 cents per usable sq/ft annually
- term of contract – 20 years
- Contract supersedes ownership change and is considered an asset of the holding corporation of the property that will transfer with ownership
- Contract is guaranteed by the government contract and equipment installed
- Take part of being green and supporting the environment without any investment
Financial incentives for photovoltaics have been applied in many countries, including Australia, China, Germany, Israel, Japan, and the United States
The Japanese government through its Ministry of International Trade and Industry ran a successful programme of subsidies from 1994 to 2003. By the end of 2004, Japan led the world in installed PV capacity with over 1.1 GW.[67]
In 2004, the German government introduced the first large-scale feed-in tariff system, under a law known as the 'EEG' (Erneuerbare Energien Gesetz) which resulted in explosive growth of PV installations in Germany. At the outset the FIT was over 3x the retail price or 8x the industrial price. The principle behind the German system is a 20 year flat rate contract. The value of new contracts is programmed to decrease each year, in order to encourage the industry to pass on lower costs to the end users. The programme has been more successful than expected with over 1GW installed in 2006, and political pressure is mounting to decrease the tariff to lessen the future burden on consumers.
Subsequently Spain, Italy, Greece (who enjoyed an early success with domestic solar-thermal installations for hot water needs) and France introduced feed-in tariffs. None have replicated the programmed decrease of FIT in new contracts though, making the German incentive relatively less and less attractive compared to other countries. The French and Greek FIT offer a high premium (EUR 0.55/kWh) for building integrated systems. California, Greece, France and Italy have 30-50% more insolation than Germany making them financially more attractive. The Greek domestic "solar roof" programme (adopted in June 2009 for installations up to 10 kW) has internal rates of return of 10-15% at current commercial installation costs, which, furthermore, is tax free.
In 2006 California approved the 'California Solar Initiative', offering a choice of investment subsidies or FIT for small and medium systems and a FIT for large systems. The small-system FIT of $0.39 per kWh (far less than EU countries) expires in just 5 years, and the alternate "EPBB" residential investment incentive is modest, averaging perhaps 20% of cost. All California incentives are scheduled to decrease in the future depending as a function of the amount of PV capacity installed.