Community solar projects (called “solar gardens” under a new Colorado law) are blooming like wildflowers in spring, reports the Solar Gardens Institute. The 2010 state law, discussed in the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s
Community Solar Power report, creates a new legal structure for community solar projects and requires utilities to buy 6 megawatts (MW) of energy from community solar projects by the end of 2013.
On this 2011 summer solstice (the longest day of the year) in the Northern Hemisphere, I thought I’d break out of my normal, obsessive news coverage and commentary tendency to step back and reflect a little more than usual. Here on CleanTechnica, that means reflecting on the clear benefits of solar energy and the clear question I think anyone not yet hooked up to solar could be asking themselves, reflecting on today….
A Colorado law allowing for the creation of solar gardens represents another step in the effort to feed solar electricity to the grid from smaller players.
I covered Network for New Energy Choices’ 2009 Freeing the Grid report last December. A good report on “which states make it easy for people to sell electricity to the grid and which make it difficult.” NNEC now has the 2010 Freeing the Grid report out. As a little reminder, NNEC (in … [continued]
