National Grid Wants Your Roof! Utility Looking to Install Solar Panels on Customer's Homes & Businesses

10.06.2008 | 13:10:38 pm | Posted by TreeHugger

photo: Daniel FigueroaThis one's a twist on decentralized solar power generation, the solar-as-service model of energy development, and traditional utility-owned power. National Grid has announced that is has filed preliminary paperwork to develop up to 50 MW of solar power in Massachusetts under the state's Green Communities Act. Big deal, right? Fifty megawatts may be a drop in the energy demand bucket, but the interesting thing is in one of the w... ...

 
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