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In September 2000, the Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) began its 5-year work on contract # DE-FGO3-00SF22116, the Photovoltaics for You (PV4You) Project. The objective was to develop and distribute information on photovoltaics and to educate key stakeholder groups including state government agencies, local government offices, consumer representative agencies, school officials and students, and Million Solar Roofs Partnerships. In addition, the project was to identify barriers to the deployment of photovoltaics and implement strategies to overcome them. Information dissemination and education was accomplished by publishing newsletters; creating a base of information, guides, and models on the www.irecusa.org and www.millionsolarroofs.org web sites; convening workshops and seminars; engaging multiple stakeholders; and widening the solar network to include new consumers and decision makers. Over the course of the grant, 219 newsletters were published, most of them electronically. They included 94 issues of the State Stakeholder E-Newsletters; 57 editions of the Interconnection E-Newsletters; 54 editions of the Schools Going Solar E-Newsletters; 10 issues of the Consumer Letter; and 4 editions of the PV4You Connections Newsmagazine. Nine Conference Papers were published; 2 articles were printed in the Solar Today Magazine; 250 Schools Going Solar Workshop-in-a-Box were distributed; 7 Fact Sheets were prepared, packaged and distributed as part of the Solar Means Safety educational campaign; Connecting to the Grid Guide 4 th Edition was published; and Model Interconnection & Net Metering Agreements were developed and distributed. In 2002, when the Department of Energy requested that IREC add Million Solar Roofs Communications and Outreach tasks to the grant, 26 regional peer-to-peer workshops were convened and 10 phone seminars were held. Two major web sites were maintained throughout the project cycle. The www.irecusa.org web site housed dedicated pages for Connecting to the Grid, Schools Going Solar, Community Outreach, and Certification & Training. The www.millionsolarroofs.org web site was created to serve the MSR Partnerships with news, interviews, key documents, and resource material. Through the course of this grant, the Interstate Renewable Energy Council has been supporting the Department of Energy's solar energy program goals by providing the Department with expertise services for their network of city, state, and community stakeholders. IREC has been the leading force at the state and federal levels regarding net metering and interconnection policy for photovoltaic systems. The principal goal and benefit of the interconnection and net metering work is to lower both barriers and cost for the installation of PV. IREC typically plays a

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