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Sorry, we are no longer accepting sign ups for Solarize Southeast.
We closed with nearly 800 people interested in joining their community to make their neighborhoods more sustainable by investing in renewable energy! Congratulations to everyone who has been involved, and a very special thanks to the neighborhood associations and volunteers who helped bring this opportunity to their neighbors.
We were able to get enough people involved to reach our pricing goal of $5.90/watt! With the number of people signed up we are confident that we will surpass our goal of 400 kW's installed!
Solarize SE in Sustainable Life - Portland Tribune
How it works:
Solarize Southeast is a community education and volume purchasing project for residential solar electricity. Through volunteer outreach people in the neighborhoods of southeast Portland who are interested in installing solar on their home are organized into a group. We get the group up to speed on how solar works and what financial incentives exist. Through a competitive bidding process we select a contractor that will give the group a bulk discount.
In the first round of Solarize in 2009, we organized 350 people to go through workshops and get a site assessment. One hundred thirty of those went on to have a solar installation, for a total of 350 kW's installed on the roofs of our community. That's the equivalent of taking 650 cars off the road!
