All Posts Tagged With: "Paul Spencer"
Rifle Gets Charged About Solar Garden
The occasion marked the culmination of Clean Energy Collective’s most ambitious community-owned PV project yet — and the largest of its kind nationally — in what some would describe as an unlikely locale.
15Jun2011 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
First Community Solar Garden Goes Live on West Slope
Year-round and seasonal residents of the Roaring Fork Valley have bought individual portions of the array for as little as $725 per panel, or $3.15/kW. Local utility coop Holy Cross Energy will then credit members’ utility bills directly each month at $0.11/kWh based on how much solar each member owns in the array.
20Aug2010 | admin | 3 comments | ContinuedFirst Community-Owned Solar Garden Launches in Roaring Fork Valley
The organization behind the effort is Clean Energy Collective
of Carbondale, and it is the first of several sites the startup has in the works. CEC has developed a model for enabling a community to collectively own a clean energy facility—solar, wind, biomass, micro hydro— and directly reap the benefits.

