Ann Arbor's Solar America City Partnership held a Kick-off Celebration October 29, 10:30am at the Farmers Market.
In 2007, Ann Arbor was designated by the US Department of Energy (DOE) as a Solar America City. The resulting Ann Arbor Solar City Partnership received $200,000 in DOE funding and an additional $200,000 in technical assistance. Add in $232,000 in matching funds from partners and Solar Cities is a two-year, $632,000 project to integrate solar energy throughout the Ann Arbor community.
The first year of the project will be spent identifying barriers and developing and recommending strategies to address those barriers, all of which will be published as an Ann Arbor Solar Plan. The second year of the project will focus more on implementing the plan's recommendations.
