Thursday, July 5, 2012

Community Solar: Clean Energy for Everyone | Sustainablog

One of the biggest setbacks for people looking to invest in solar is a lack of a suitable place to put the solar panels. A solar installation both has to be in the right direction and the right angle to extract enough energy from the sun's trajectory for the system to be financially feasible.

When we add up the numbers, only about 1 in 5 American households is suitable for solar, which means that the vast majority of the population cannot contribute much in the solar movement even if they wanted to.

In the last few years this has been changing: community-owned solar enables households that otherwise wouldn't be eligible for solar panels in the past to invest in, and make use of, this technology.

Read more:

http://sustainablog.org/2012/07/community-solar/

Joy Hughes, Founder, Solar Gardens Institute http://www.solargardens.org
CEO, Solar Panel Hosting LLC http://www.solarpanelhosting.com
(719)207-3097 direct

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