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Community Solar Now Available to All Vermonters

Green Mountain Community Solar (GMCS), a Groton, VT-based company, is now offering a new way to go solar — from anywhere in the state! The solar panel ownership in the community group is from off-site solar farms and is now available to any Vermonter or Vermont business.

Previously, community solar farm participation was […]

Communities Unite for Discounted Solar Installation

Neighbors come together to install solar at up to 20% discount; Governor encourages additional communities to enroll

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced communities across the state have come together to bring clean and affordable solar power to their localities at a discounted cost of up to 20 percent. With 26 campaigns launching through […]

Vermont Solar Farm Wins 2015 Project of Distinction Award

Final commissioning of project is expected in June once all battery storage and controls are fully tested. Photo: Green Mountain Power.

Green Mountain Power and groSolar have been awarded the 2015 Project of Distinction Award for the Stafford Hill Solar Farm in Rutland , by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and […]

Growing a Community Solar Farm

Green Mtn. Community Solar in Groton, VT

Local high school and college students who helped build the project are, left to right, Natalie Page, Rowan Johnston-McWilliams, Zac Bergh, Tiernan Johnston-McWilliams, Hector Soveren, Jake LaVaude, Caleb Genereaux and Eli LaVaude.

Thirteen Vermont families, Wells River Savings Bank and Catamount Film and Arts have collaborated […]

Community Solar – the Game Changer for the Green Revolution

This 150kW Community Solar project in Brattleboro, Vermont, has been providing power to six residences and three businesses since October 14th, 2014. Photo courtesy Soveren Solar

 

By Daniel Hoviss Putney VT

Merriam Webster says a Game Changer is a newly introduced element or factor that changes an existing situation or activity in […]

181 New Solar Contracts Signed in the Upper Valley

Solarize Upper Valley Closes Round Two, Opens Round Three

Solarize Orford installer partner Chris Milner of Milhouse Enterprises completes a ground-mount installation in Orford in December.

By Allison E. Rogers Furbish

As of its January 31 deadline, the second round of the Solarize Upper Valley initiative saw 181 contracts signed for new solar […]

Southern Vermont Community Solar

Putney community solar field. Photo by Teal Pulsifer, Soveren Solar

By Daniel Hoviss

One of Southern Vermont’s newest community solar installations is at the Vermont Agricultural Business Education Center (VABEC), just south of Brattleboro. It is the latest of the Soveren Community Solar Farms. Though these are all sold out, it is still […]

100 kW Power Guru Installation

In the Holiday Spirit of Giving

Bhima Nitta of Power Guru at the North Bennington Variety array

By George Harvey

Trying to do better with energy, Galen Rhode, owner of the North Bennington Variety (NBV) store, improved the energy efficiency of the property by 20% with help from Efficiency Vermont, but wanted […]

Solarize Upper Valley ‘Launch Event’

Mark your calendar for Oct. 18, 2014!

Solarize Upper Valley’s next campaign is off to a great start. After the success of the first 140 homes going solar in round one, it will be interesting to see how many more homes go solar for this new round of towns that are involved.

If you live […]

An Innovative Solar Collective

By George Harvey

This member owned innovative collective has a combined rated output of 27.54 kW. The cost per member was less than $3.42 per watt and has room for over 200 more panels.

Eric Shenholm, founder of Saxtons River Solar Electric, in Saxtons River, Vermont, has developed a new type of solar […]