Under the Community Solar Gardens Act, which was implemented last year in Colorado, REC Solar completed the first of four community solar projects. It is a 500 kW array of solar panels called the Boulder Cowdery Meadows Solar Array. This is the first community solar project completed under Xcel Energy’s Solar*Rewards Community … [continued]
The Backbone Campaign’s community solar project was motivated by a generous production incentive offered in Washington State for solar projects installed on public property. Campaign organizer Bill Moyer and many residents of King County, WA, hoped to keep more energy dollars in the local economy by using this incentive to … [continued]
Reposted from Vote Solar: The Vote Solar Initiative (Vote Solar), a non-profit grassroots organization, last week launched a new website designed to track shared renewable energy policy and projects across all 50 states. Visit: www.sharedrenewables.org Renewable energy is the fastest growing sector of our national energy mix, yet a significant portion … [continued]
What began as a group of neighbors hoping to reduce their impact on global warming has since become a major force for solar advocacy in Washington, DC. The Mount Pleasant Solar Cooperative was started by two teenage boys who wanted to make solar power convenient and affordable through a bulk-purchase … [continued]
A new solar energy bill in the US state of Georgia has been submitted, “Rural Georgia Economic Recovery and Solar Resource Act of 2014.” This bill would create a new model for generation and distribution of electricity, allowing the Public Service Commission to authorize and establish a rural community solar initiative and oversee and manage the expansion … [continued]
Group buying programs have caught on fast in the US, helping reduce the up-front cost of installing solar PV systems. Via HGACBuy, municipal and state government agencies are getting in on the act.
The 16 founding members of the truSolar consortium aim to develop industry standards and a framework for mitigating risks, optimizing returns, and underwriting solar PV projects.
Crowdfunding is all the rage. Clean energy, especially solar, is about as popular as anything. Naturally, clean energy + crowdfunding = a win. We’ve written about a few clean energy crowdfunding opportunities and organizations over the past year or so (see the last section of this article), but the announcement … [continued]
This is a post that was shared with me quite awhile back and offered up for reposting. Thanks to Christmas, I finally got the time to take a look and repost it. Enjoy! Community Power: Renewing Communities Through Renewables A joint article by Samantha Go and Devika Narayan, SolSolution Mümtaz … [continued]
The San Miguel Power Association Community Solar Array, the largest community-owned solar facility in the country, is now officially open. At its location in southwestern Colorado, the 1.1MW solar array provides power to more than 200 homes. According to Paul Spencer, the CEO and the founder of the Clean … [continued]
