{"id":543198,"date":"2010-04-26T06:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=8823"},"modified":"2010-04-26T06:43:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T10:43:00","slug":"marylanders-take-leap-of-faith-into-nation%e2%80%99s-first-community-initiated-solar-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/543198","title":{"rendered":"Marylanders Take Leap of Faith into Nation\u2019s First Community-Initiated Solar Installation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-8825\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/26\/marylanders-take-leap-of-faith-into-nations-first-community-initiated-solar-installation\/maryland-community-initiates-solar-installation\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8825\" title=\"Maryland community initiates solar installation\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/04\/Maryland-community-initiates-solar-installation.jpg\" alt=\"Nation's first community-initiated solar power installation will be in University Park, Maryland\" width=\"500\" height=\"368\" \/><\/a>A tree lined community has come up with <a title=\"press release on prnewswire.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/residents-of-university-park-maryland-band-together-in-first-community-initiated-solar-electric-system-91831319.html\" >a solar energy solution<\/a> that could serve as a model for others.\u00a0 In what appears to be a first-of-its-kind arrangement, a group of individuals in University Park, Maryland have established a limited liability corporation that will use a local church as the site of a new distributed solar power installation.\u00a0 The plan mirrors a much larger <a title=\"cleantechnica.com article\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/25\/duke-energy-brings-solar-energy-home-with-ten-new-distributed-solar-projects\/\" >distributed solar energy program<\/a> embarked upon last year by Duke Energy, one of the largest utility companies in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>University Park Solar LLC will reduce the community&#8217;s reliance on coal-generated electricity and support green jobs in the U.S. (<a title=\"university park solar llc website\" href=\"http:\/\/universityparksolar.com\/\" >the solar panels are made in the U.S.<\/a> by <a title=\"cleantechnica.com article\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2009\/10\/25\/sharp-nails-a-record-358-solar-conversion-efficiency\/\" >solar energy pioneer Sharp<\/a>).\u00a0 Like Duke Energy, University Solar sees a great benefit in distributed solar power.\u00a0 By becoming part of the everyday landscape of community life, solar energy makes the leap from exotic newcomer to just another reliable, dependable source of electrical power.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/26\/marylanders-take-leap-of-faith-into-nations-first-community-initiated-solar-installation\/#more-8823\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tree lined community has come up with a solar energy solution that could serve as a model for others.\u00a0 In what appears to be a first-of-its-kind arrangement, a group of individuals in University Park, Maryland have established a limited liability corporation that will use a local church as the site of a new distributed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}