EVENT: Denver, August 5 - Starting a Community Solar Cooperative

Solar Gardens Institute and Colorado Renewable Energy Society present

Connecting Communities Colloquium - Implementing Solar Gardens 


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A Colorado Cooperative for Community Solar

Friday August 5, 2011 – 1 - 4 PM

Habitat for Humanity Building, 3245 Eliot Street, Denver, Colorado

            Learn about the latest developments in community solar in Colorado – newly built projects and a new cooperative to help local communities go solar.  Explore easy ways for your citizens’ group or solar company to get involved in Colorado’s growing community solar movement.

1:00 Becky English, Moderator - Solar Gardens Institute, CRES, Sierra Club

            - Greetings and introductions

1:10 RJ Harrington - Colorado Solar Energy Industry Association (Denver, CO)

– Update on XCEL / PUC Solar Gardens Program

1:20 Stanley Florek - Tangerine Power (Seattle Washington)

– Starting a Cooperative for Community Solar

1:50 Lauren Martindale, Clean Energy Collective (Carbondale, CO)

– Customer Owned Solar Gardens Toolkit

2:20 Break

2:30 John Covert - Colorado Harvesting Energy Network (Denver, CO)

– Distrubuted Generation for Agricultural Producers

3:00 Joseph McCabe, SRA International / Governor’s Energy Office (Lakewood, CO)

– The Renewable Energy Development Team

3:30 Joy Hughes, Solar Gardens Institute (Moffat, CO)

– Solar Gardens Development in Colorado

Suggested donation $10