Clean Power EstimatorTM is an economic evaluation software program the California Energy Commission is licensing for use from Clean Power Research. The program provides California residential and commercial electric customers a personalized estimate of the costs and benefits of investing in a photovoltaic (PV) solar or small wind electric generation system.
The program takes into consideration customer-specific information in order to provide the best estimate of a given system’s costs and benefits. This information includes the estimated cost of the particular system under consideration, the customer’s location, electric rate schedules, and other customer information.