{"id":845,"date":"2006-06-06T06:44:16","date_gmt":"2006-06-06T10:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=845"},"modified":"2013-01-21T13:53:41","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T18:53:41","slug":"pooling-for-rooftop-solar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/06\/06\/pooling-for-rooftop-solar\/","title":{"rendered":"Pooling for Rooftop Solar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Spacing editor Leah Sandals reports<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><!--StartFragment --><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.timeinc.net\/sunset\/Premium\/Home\/2001\/10-Oct\/Photovoltaic1001\/Photovoltaic10011.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>As reported in the <em>Star<\/em> today, consortiums of Toronto homeowners are pooling together to mass-purchase and install solar panels in their communities.<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Hamilton reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153In the Riverdale, Leslieville, and Beaches communities, about 75 homeowners have banded together to make a bulk purchase of rooftop solar photovoltaic panels that will meet a portion of each home&#8217;s power demands. Solera Sustainable Energies Co. won the contract and will begin installing the panels this week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Across the city, in an area encompassing Parkdale, High Park, the Annex, and Seaton Village, a group of more than 150 homeowners has been similarly inspired and will soon invite interested solar companies to bid for their business. This grassroots project has caught the attention of the Harbord Village Residents Association, which is now considering its own bulk-purchase initiative.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Though Harper wants to pull out of Kyoto, it appears many Torontonians don&#8217;t. And since air conditioners are already groaning under the temps of a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153summer heat wave\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that just happened to start in mid-Spring, we should be thankful they are.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/NASApp\/cs\/ContentServer?pagename=thestar\/Layout\/Article_Type1&#038;c=Article&#038;cid=1149460817913&#038;call_pageid=968350072197&#038;col=969048863851\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article in the <em>Star<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourpower.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Find out more about the initiative<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spacing editor Leah Sandals reports: As reported in the Star today, consortiums of Toronto homeowners are pooling together to mass-purchase and install solar panels in their communities. Tyler Hamilton reports: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153In the Riverdale, Leslieville, and Beaches communities, about 75 homeowners have banded together to make a bulk purchase of rooftop solar photovoltaic panels that will<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/06\/06\/pooling-for-rooftop-solar\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Pooling for Rooftop Solar&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4010,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,18],"tags":[23,1390,2444,1025,654,2448,2447,2446,405,19,2445],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-space","category-neighbourhoods","tag-environment","tag-harbord-village-residents-association","tag-kyoto","tag-leah-sandals","tag-leslieville","tag-rooftop-solar-spacing-editor","tag-seaton-village","tag-solera-sustainable-energies-co","tag-the-star","tag-toronto","tag-tyler-hamilton"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pooling for Rooftop Solar - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/06\/06\/pooling-for-rooftop-solar\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pooling for Rooftop Solar - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Spacing editor Leah Sandals reports: As reported in the Star today, consortiums of Toronto homeowners are pooling together to mass-purchase and install solar panels in their communities. 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