K-SEC FOUNDER ANSWERS FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

K-SEC Motto:  1,000 MWp At A Time! 

K-SEC Magic:  Kansas Manufacturing

K-SEC Added Value:

• Local Expertise
• 2,000 green energy jobs!
• Increase Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness
• Protect Health & Environment

Q1:  How is K-SEC's Solar Energy Program different, and why?

EMS-A1:  The K-SEC Model is non-profit deployment acceleration program.  Consumers will not have to purchase, install, monitor or maintain the solar generator K-SEC installs on their rooftop.  K-SEC will negotiate interconnection to the utility grid. 

Q2:  How much will it cost consumers to be involved in the K-SEC program?

EMS-A2:  Consumers will only pay their electric bill unless there is structural modifications needed for a solar array.  USDA has grants and low interest loans that will pay for up to 25% of a solar generator.  This would cover the cost of roofing modification.

Q3:  How and why did The K-SEC Model come into existence?

EMS-A3:  As founder & CEO of the SOLAR DEVELOPMENT COOPERATIVE, I was involved in the California Public Utilities Commission [CPUC] joint agency rulemaking from 1997 to 2004.  Consumer education was a primary role of SDC where the $540 million renewable energy program had only $5 million budgeted for public and consumer education.

In 2000, Clint Eastwood  installed a solar system on his Tehama Golf Course.  When he was not paid his Net Metering and 50% rebate, he called a meeting with CA Governor Davis.  While Mr. Eastwood was finally provided his contracted incentives many consumers were not. 

That is when I realized that not only is it highly expensive to deploy solar via venerable fragmented consumers, but that many consumers were being exploited by regulatory agencies and PV manufacturers ~ most of which are presently owned by oil companies.  

This led to my decision to evolve a model of solar technology deployment via locally-owned non-profit renewable energy cooperatives.

The statewide organization will recruit board members, organize the local cooperatives and manage the manufacturing and distribution of BI-PV Solar products for K-SEC.

The local cooperatives will manage development of a database of solar roofing potential and they will work with the statewide K-SEC organization to facilitate training and K-SEC certification for installation, monitoring, maintenance and management of K-SEC's data and R&D information.

Q4:  What can we do today? 

EMS-A4:  Kansas Senate Majority Leader Jay Emler has recommended a Joint Resolution for the House and the Senate to assure their endorsement.  We welcome your letters and support to let the Kansas legislature know why you want The K-SEC Model! 

Write to your Kansas legislators and copy your letters to K-SEC, today! 

Momentum is the challenge and momentum is the solution!

Q5:  How is K-SEC structured as a business, and why?  

EMS-A5:  There are two separate non-profit business pathways needed to evolve The K-SEC Model.  It is important to remember that K-SEC is a deployment acceleration program.

The first K-SEC entity is the statewide non-profit member organization.  It was incorporated as a Kansas non-profit organization in 2008.  K-SEC issued a million non-profit shares at $10 each to complate our pre-Phase I tasks.  Pre-Phase I Demonstration  tasks of this facilitation non-profit is to recruit board members and organize twenty-one local renewable cooperatives across Kansas via K.S.A. Chapter 17-4651 to 4681.  

The K-SEC statewide organization will be in charge of manufacturing,  training and serve as a unifying organization for local K-SEC renewable cooperatives.

The second business pathway is twenty-one the local renewable cooperatives.  Each local cooperative will have five core board members and be incorporated under K.S.A. Chapter 17-4651 to 4681 Renewable Cooperatives.   Each of the five board members will be from one county. 

The twenty-one renewable cooperatives will require 105 cpre board members with one board member from each county of Kansas. 

By statute each board member must install 100 kWp renewable generation capacity within two years of incorporation.  This provides the legal and regulatory momentum to realize K-SEC's Phase I Demonstration of 10,000 SF BI-PV Solar in each county of KS by 2012.  It provides the base and momentum to evolve Phase II.

Q6:  Who will decide what buildings and homes in each county will be awarded a K-SEC solar rooftop?

EMS-A6:  Every local cooperative will have a little different agenda.  We encourage a local influence to evolve the projects and activities that are important to each county.   One county may want to start with a hospital rooftop while another may want to install 5,000 SF BI-PV on a school gymnasium for their demonstration. One may want to install the entire 10,000 SF on one building like KU's Watkin's Health Center with an exhibit to educate the public while another may focus on their historic town square with no solar roofs showing from the front per preservation laws.

Q7:  What can we do today to help? 

EMS-A7:  There are many ways to help.  Some of those include:

• Become a K-SEC Board Member
• Serve on K-SEC Advisory Board
• Sponsor Business Development  
•  Donate time and/or resources
• Help publicize The K-SEC Model
• Purchase K-SEC Stock $10 Share to Help Us Organize
• Sponsor K-SEC Founder's Salary
• Sponsor K-SEC Mobile Exhibit
• Sponsor K-SEC Exhibit event for your county May to Sept 2011
• Sponsor K-SEC Mobile Exhibit in Hutchinson during State Fair
• Volunteer to survey consumers
• Apply for K-SEC CFO position 
• Write articles to publicize K-SEC
• Know what K-SEC is about
• BELIEVE in The K-SEC Model

MORE Q&A on the way...

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