A solar garden building boom is sweeping the Denver area, with nine gardens already built and 10 more under development.
An 800-kilo watt array next to Green Valley Ranch Middle School in Denver, developed by Denver-based Sun Share LLC and Princeton, N.J.-based NRG Energy Inc., is set to go into operation.
In Boulder, a $1.5 million, 500-kilo watt solar system installers los angeles being built by Louisville-based Clean Energy Collective is nearing completion — next to its first array, which opened in 2013.
"There is a growing demand for solar, and solar gardens is a concept that is taking off across the country," said Adam Browning, executive director of VoteSolar, a solar energy advocacy group.
The gardens, in which area residents or businesses can buy a fractional ownership, are marketed to those who can't put solar panels on their roofs.
About three-quarters of residential rooftops aren't suitable for solar panels, according to a study by the Golden-based National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Homeowners, businesses and municipalities with shares in a garden get a credit on their electricity bills for a portion of the electricity it generates, SunShare chief executive David Amster-Olszewski said read more
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An 800-kilo watt array next to Green Valley Ranch Middle School in Denver, developed by Denver-based Sun Share LLC and Princeton, N.J.-based NRG Energy Inc., is set to go into operation.
In Boulder, a $1.5 million, 500-kilo watt solar system installers los angeles being built by Louisville-based Clean Energy Collective is nearing completion — next to its first array, which opened in 2013.
"There is a growing demand for solar, and solar gardens is a concept that is taking off across the country," said Adam Browning, executive director of VoteSolar, a solar energy advocacy group.
The gardens, in which area residents or businesses can buy a fractional ownership, are marketed to those who can't put solar panels on their roofs.
About three-quarters of residential rooftops aren't suitable for solar panels, according to a study by the Golden-based National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Homeowners, businesses and municipalities with shares in a garden get a credit on their electricity bills for a portion of the electricity it generates, SunShare chief executive David Amster-Olszewski said read more
Home solar power system los angeles
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