Starting a Solar Cooperative Teach-in
Channel: SustainableEconomies LawCenter
Date: 2015-08-26

Have you been trying to install solar panels on your roof or in your community, but are facing technical or financial barriers? To address those barriers, the Sustainable Economies Law Center hosted a teach-in at the Impact HUB Oakland on August 3rd on “Starting Your Own Solar Cooperative!” Learn from the Energy Solidarity Cooperative and Community Power Network on how to create energy resilience within your community by implementing neighborhood solar cooperatives. By going solar as a group, each participant saves on the cost of their system and gets support from their peers as they go through the process.

The teach-in will walk you through the process of creating a solar cooperative with technical expertise from successful solar cooperatives and solar cooperative incubators. This workshop assisted specifically with project workflow, how to leverage non-extractive lender financing with other community financing, and also addressed the benefits in workforce development and community empowerment of the solar cooperative model.