[MCN] Community solar: Something Missoulians could support?

[Lance Olsen]

The Rapid Growth Of Community Solar Gardens

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/07/09/3674045/community-solar-gardens-grow/

Excerpts:

Designed for those without rooftop access, these 
shared solar projects will open up opportunities 
for some 50 percent of current U.S. households 
and businesses that are unable to host a 
photovoltaic system due to site unsuitability, 
ownership, or multi-unit status...

On Tuesday, the Obama administration added to the 
momentum by announcing a new Energy Department 
program to help build community solar systems as 
part of a larger effort to install 300 megawatts 
of solar power in subsidized housing by 2020.

"For someone who has never heard of community 
solar before, it's basically like we took the 
solar panels off a roof, put them in a field, and 
made them accessible to everyone," she said.

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/07/09/3674045/community-solar-gardens-grow/

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"Even doubling our current rate of 
decarbonisation, would still lead to emissions 
consistent with 6 degrees of warming by the end 
of the century. To give ourselves a more than 50% 
chance of avoiding 2 degrees will require a 
six-fold improvement in our rate of 
decarbonisation."

Leo Johnson
Partner, Sustainability and Climate Change, PricewaterhouseCoopers
"Too late for two degrees? Low carbon economy index" November 2012
<<https://www.thepmr.org/system/files/documents/Low%20Carbon%20Economy%20Index%202012.pdf>>
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difference it will make to someone if it is true."

William James (1842 -1910)
Pragmatism. Meridian Books, 1955





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