“Much like community-supported agriculture, the array in Sacramento is a community-supported solar project. Customers, many of whom are interested in the environmental benefits, pay an average of $11 more a month for electricity from these solar panels, which are only 30 miles from downtown Sacramento. The idea is catching on.
In the hills of San Francisco, officials and politicians recently turned on the brand new Sunset Reservoir solar array. It's the size of 12 football fields, which is not too big, but not too small.
That makes it just right for Arno Harris, the CEO of Recurrent Energy, the company that built the project.
"What we think really is the sweet spot is this place in the middle," he says.
Harris says it was tough at first to get people interested in a project this size. Most of the financing was going to huge solar farms that cover hundreds of acres.
"With those large projects, what you run into is that they take a really long time to deliver and there are all sorts of gotchas along the way," he says.”
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