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3 109 Patricia Roberts: So what do you do with this electricity? 110 111 Javier Gorbe: You have to give it back to the grid… You cannot sell to a customer. You cannot sell to commercial 112 building. You cannot sell to a farmer. You have to sell it back to the grid and the rules to do that are in the state 113 rules and regulations. 114 115 Patrick Mallett: Those are typically used to power the building they’re on, or the near area versus this type of facility 116 that throws the power in with the grid system. 117 118 Patricia Roberts: I have solar panels on my house and Duke Power does not… It’s all in their favor, and 119 summertime we do okay. The wintertime, they may even charge you money to have to come read your meter. 120 121 Patrick Mallett: From a legal perspective, I believe, your power goes to the grid and you get a credit. 122 123 Kim Piracci: It’s my understanding that if you’ve put a solar array on the ground you can put it on the optimal space. 124 If it’s on the building it might be sub-optimal. 125 126 Javier Gorbe: You have some other problems to put them on the building, so if the building is from the 1990’s or 127 earlier there are regulations that are less strict than now. So the buildings don’t meet the actual code so you cannot 128 put anything on the roof because they don’t meet the local standards anyway. And you can still do solar, but the 129 way you do solar is more complicated. 130 131 Kim Piracci: 5 megawatts; can you put that in terms of how many houses it could run? 132 133 Javier Gorbe: Depending on the power of the house I can’t say. But, we will generate, here, 1,450 kilowatt hours 134 each kilowatt that we stow. 135 136 Michael Harvey: I just wanted to state the our ordinance doesn’t preclude the placement of solar panels on top of 137 building roofs, but again it has to handle load. We would encourage it but the building has to be able to handle the 138 load of panels. 139 140 Patricia Roberts: So there’s rows in between these, why not have them plant grapes or something? 141 142 Javier Gorbe: It’s about liability. You can really do anything between the panels, and again, North Carolina is one of 143 the best places to have a good layer of grass between the panels. Normally this is an investment so to plant 144 anything there, normally we don’t go that route because it’s a liability issue. 145 146 Lisa Stuckey: Chapel Hill just recently had a big push to get solar panels on top of peoples houses and several 147 hundred people did. 148 149 Paul Guthrie: Where is the connection going to be to the grid? 150 151 Javier Gorbe: There is an existing line here, running through 70 and this is the entrance to the site and the line is 152 parallel to the road. 153 154 Paul Guthrie: What extent will there need to be construction activity in making that connection? 155 156 Javier Gorbe: The line comes up to here and then goes this way, up to the site. We will have to do a new line. But, 157 from here to the road is up to Duke to decide how they want to refurbish the line, if they have to or put any new 158 equipment. 159 160 Paul Guthrie: Will there need to be any extensive use of land that’s not in that drawing, it’s a different ownership is 161 the reason I’m asking? 162 7