By Herman K. Trabish | GreenTech Media
Clean Energy Collective has just completed three new community solar projects, bringing added momentum to an emerging business model that could triple access to solar.
“Our model is not supplanting people who want to and can put solar on their house, but rather opening the market to the other 75 percent of electricity users,” explained Clean Energy Collective (CEC) President/Founder Paul Spencer.
Spencer will be speaking at GTM’s Solar Market Insight conference in December about the opportunities for community and crowd-funded solar — joining Greg Rosen, chief investment officer for Solar Mosaic and Anna Brockway, head of crowd-funded solar at the Department of Energy’s SunShot Initiative.
Since 2010, when Spencer originated the community-owned solar project model, CEC has brought thirteen community-funded solar installations on-line totaling 5.3 megawatts. It has a pipeline of ten more projects totaling 5.2 megawatts. Two of the new CEC projects are 500-kilowatt installations for Xcel Energy ratepayers in Breckenridge. The third is a 400-kilowatt installation in Denver County.
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