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Solar Leasing Provides Power for Pennies

September 27th, 2011 | by Silvio Marcacci

Millions of visitors go to the Cincinnati Zoo every year, but the newest attraction isn’t the new baby giraffe – it’s a solar panel. More accurately, over 6,000 solar panels installed over the zoo’s parking lot, spanning an area the size of four football fields. The sheer size of the arrays is impressive, but not nearly as impressive as their price tag: absolutely nothing. The Cincinnati Zoo is the latest solar leasing success story, an innovative program that matches up investors with property owners who want to install solar but may not be able to afford the up-front costs. energyNOW! correspondent Patty Kim visited the zoo and SunRun, a San Francisco-based start-up to learn how solar leasing is generating power for pennies


Cleantech News Link Drop

January 17th, 2011 | by Zachary Shahan

I decided to leave last week’s roundup of cleantech (or related) news that we didn’t already cover on Cleantechnica to



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