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Contribute a Project of the Month article on the Solar Washington website. Get on the schedule by submitting an abstract to potm@solarwa.org for consideration. Full articles are expected to be a page or two of text and a couple of good images, due 2 weeks before the 1st of your assigned month. You can view previous articles at http://solarwa.org/potms. Any type of project will be considered including residential, commercial, utility or community solar. Qualified articles will include equipment descriptions, system size and performance, permitting issues, financing, construction methods, contractors involved, obstacles overcome, community involvement, customer satisfaction and the story behind the project - how did it get off the ground, who and what made it happen. Login access to a preview website will be provided if you want to post the content yourself or you can submit doc and image files and we'll post it for your review and acceptance.

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November - Poulsbo Middle School Community Solar Project

Wed, 10/05/2011 - 19:25 | jeasolar

The state’s first full size, 75-kW community solar project has been completed on Poulsbo Middle School. Coming on line last March, the project was installed at no cost to the school. Instead, a group of community members financed the installation and are now eligible for up to $5,000 a year in incentive payments.

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Seattle Sunlight 2011

Sun, 09/18/2011 - 19:28 | jeasolar

How much sun does Seattle get? The short answer is 3.3 on a linear scale where Yakima WA is 4.1, Los Angeles is 4.9 and Las Vegas is 5.7. Germany, the biggest solar market in the world, is generally less than 3. That puts Seattle at 67% of Southern California, better than you might have guessed, and better than Germany.

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Edmonds Community Solar Cooperative pioneers new Cooperative Solar Model

36 Snohomish County residents + 7 organizations join forces for a solar “Barn Raising”

Affordable Solar? YES!

Sound like an oxymoron? Like jumbo shrimp, or winter sun in Seattle? Not anymore. Lowering the cost of solar energy use recently got a giant boost. Those of us without $20,000 of disposable income, or a south-facing roof can buy into a commercial sized solar electric system for $1,000 and help create clean, renewable solar electricity in our own area through the Edmonds Community Solar Cooperative.

Community solar legislation, passed in 2009, made it possible for renters, condo owners, forest dwellers and thousandaires to share in the triple bottom line of solar energy use. We can: reduce our carbon footprint (good for our planet), provide discounted power to the City of Edmonds (good for our community), and receive federal, state and utility incentives (good for our wallet).

Key Stats on Edmonds Community Solar Cooperative

4.2 kilowatts of Made in Washington solar equipment installed on the Frances Anderson community center in Edmonds, Washington.
36 charter members each bought between $1,000 and $3,000 in SunSlices^tm to launch phase one of the project.
100 watts of solar power owned in each SunSlice^tmholder’s name.
100% of each SunSlice holder’s original purchase amount is expected to be returned out of the project’s revenue from energy production.
1^st Citizen owned Solar Cooperative in the United States.
4 City Council meetings attended to educate community leaders about the costs and benefits of community solar.
3 days for Sunergy to construct the system (on time and under budget.)
30 media mentions worldwide for this groundbreaking project – from Edmonds all the way to Germany.

Membership Management for Non-Profits

Solar Washington is looking at civiCRM to manage its membership and sponsorship. This can be compared with other approaches such as described in the links below. After reviewing these links and/or doing your own research on the subject of "membership management software" enter your vote in subsequent poll.

http://civicrm.org/

http://www.memberclicks.com/membership_management/

http://www.amazon.com/Executive-Directors-Nonprofit-Jossey-Bass-Guideboo...

http://groupspaces.com/c/landing/?lp=6.1&utm_term=non%20profit%20members...

http://www.wildapricot.com/

What is your favorite Membership Management Software

Sun, 08/07/2011 - 03:48 | jeasolar

Gmap and Location

This is an example of content with Drupal Location and Gmap fields. This is how the Solar Tour site at solarwa.org is implemented, albiet with additonal taxonomy relationships to divide a long list of sites into different areas. Click the Title above or Read more below to see how this shows up as full content.

Location

My house

250 NW Dogwood St.

Issaquah, WA

United States

47° 32' 4.488" N, 122° 2' 27.0024" W

See map: Google Maps

Project of the Month - Woodland Park Zoo Carousel

Fri, 07/15/2011 - 19:16 | jeremy

The historic carousel at the Woodland Park Zoo was recently given a high-tech, eco-friendly makeover - solar panels now power the popular attraction as part of Seattle City Light’s solar-panel demonstration project.