I love the solar idea, as well as many of the others. 

I'm so blown away by the talent in this class!

I'd like to see our project have an impact on the entire community, not just a select number within the Park City limits. I'm not sure how many low income Latino families own homes in the city, so involving this sector could be difficult. 

What if we follow in Rossignol's footsteps and target the PC school buildings for our solar project? This would definitely involve all of us (except the 2nd homeowners.) There would be high visibility and it would have a huge educational impact. 

Solar School System anyone?  This project would involve aspects of many of our ideas.

Extending Program to County, Low Income & Latino Families

Annette et all,

I love your idea. The incentives would come from Park City muni, but we might be able to get them to extend it out to the Park City school district or If we could get Summit County to match
Park City's incentive then we could extend the program out the county.

If we start after our meeting on March 24th and try to complete the project by our final meeting and party on October 17th, that would give us 200 days. We would need to divide and concur
to get all the upfront work done in the first 100 days, so that the contractor can start installation on July 10th, so that they have 100 days to finish by October 17th. We could pre-purchase
and store the equipment, which would help. I think it's do able.

We could also help out some low income families by making income a factor in the solar home selection criteria, kind of in line with some of the affordable housing ideas.
By focusing on low income families, I'm sure we could get some latino families with solar panels on their homes, which could help bring the latino community into project "Ciudad Solar".

Bo

Solar Roof Mount Question

Q: why do they have to go on the roof? can't they be integrated into a landscape/xeriscape near the ground level? the south side of our house/deck is cranking hot.

A: Good question. The problem is any "hard" shadow lines (telephone line, trees, other homes, etc) on any portion of the solar array (a bunch of panels) will shut off the entire array. The array must be facing within 15 degree of due south within 5 degree of a 40 degree tilt and exposed to the sun between 9am-3pm on the winter soltice, Dec 21st. Unless you live on top of a mountain or in Oakley, the only place you can install them is on top of a house.

Bo