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Solar Oakland Schools expect 45% savings


Maybe local school districts would like to do this.

Dublin, GA High School did.

Lowndes County School District has the bond rating to do it.

SunPower PR in WSJ today,

Oakland Unified School District Plans to Reduce Electricity Costs by Nearly Half with SunPower Solar Systems at 16 Schools,

SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — SunPower Corp.
(NASDAQ: SPWR) today announced that it is designing and building
high efficiency SunPower solar power systems for 16 schools in the
Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) in Oakland, Calif. Once
completed in 2014, the district estimates it will reduce electricity
costs at those facilities by 46 percent.



“Our contract with SunPower will enable Oakland Unified School
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Solar rooftops in a New Orleans neighborhood

Want people to get rooftop solar?
Put solar on rooftops where people can see it.
Cities and power companies and even NGOs like Habitat for Humanity
can help with that.



Andri Antoniades wrote for Takepart.com 10 November 2012,

Katrina-Ravaged Neighborhood Reemerges as ‘Largest Solar Housing Development in Southeast’:
The former St. Thomas Housing Projects are reborn into a square mile of solar-powered homes,

The St. Thomas Housing Project in New Orleans used to be known best
as a high-crime area, until Hurricane Katrina swept it it all away.
But seven years after the fact, St. Thomas has been reborn as the
mixed-income River Garden Apartments, which has once again gained
notoriety, but this time as the “largest solar neighborhood in the
Southeast.”

The River Garden Apartments encompass eight blocks that cover about
one square mile of New Orleans. The brightly colored homes are
topped with solar panels and according to Clean Technica, the
development is Louisiana’s largest solar project to date.

And also in Oakland, California:

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