Community Solar: Panels Without A Roof
Powering our lives with clean energy is essential to decarbonize and eliminate the CO2 emissions that are changing the climate before our eyes. Fortunately, clean energy is now more accessible than ever with multiple options for every household including the exciting, new kid on the block: community solar.
While grid-supplied electricity is already rapidly decarbonizing — emissions from US electricity dropped nearly 40% from their 2007 peak — terrifying wildfires, heat domes, and floods remind us that we need to dramatically speed up the transition to clean, pollution-free energy. At the household scale, solar is the most viable option. . As the cost of solar decreases each year, all forms of solar are within reach of more people.
Electricity emissions fell from 2,500 million metric tons of carbon to 1,500 million metric tons, in 12 years,There are three options for solar energy to decarbonize your life: 1) rooftop solar; 2) utility renewable energy programs ; and 3) subscription to a community solar project somewhere in your region. We use all three solutions for our net zero carbon home and transportation.
Putting solar on your rooftop is the big move, and we’ll dig into it in a future post, but we wanted to start with a more readily accessible solution. Community solar is for anyone who lives in one of the many parts of the country that offers it, especially people who are eager to decarbonize, but don’t own their roof, have a roof that isn’t good for solar due to structure, age, shade or orientation, or aren’t in a position to invest the money for rooftop solar.
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