{"id":7779,"date":"2015-06-07T07:44:07","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T07:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=7779"},"modified":"2015-12-03T07:31:44","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T07:31:44","slug":"2015-06-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2015-06-07\/","title":{"rendered":"Peninsula SunShares – Let’s Go Solar Together"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kevin Armstrong<\/strong><\/h3>\n

June 7, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

The City of Palo Alto has partnered with twelve neighboring communities on a regional effort aimed at increasing residential rooftop solar installations. The new Peninsula SunShares program pools the power of individual customers, and reduces the advertising costs of the two solar companies that were selected, so that the two solar companies can offer a 15% discount off the normal market rate. Anyone living in the nine Bay Area counties (including Santa Clara and San Mateo) may enroll in the program, and receive a free no-obligation analysis and estimate from one or both of the companies. Registration in the program is available until July 31, 2015.<\/p>\n

Kevin Armstrong (Program Manager, Vote Solar, www.votesolar.org) co-leads Vote Solar\u2019s administration of group solar programs in an effort to help the solar industry reduce soft costs and Vote Solar’s partners achieve the goals of their climate action plans. He previously spent two years with the City of San Jose, and two years with the County of San Mateo, managing municipal renewable energy programs. He has degrees in Civil & Environmental Engineering and City & Regional Planning from UC Berkeley and Stanford University.<\/p>\n