{"id":2121,"date":"2011-04-25T12:16:19","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T16:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/solar-mosaic-helps-you-hurdle-solar-financing.html"},"modified":"2011-04-25T12:16:19","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T16:16:19","slug":"solar-mosaic-helps-you-hurdle-solar-financing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/solar-mosaic-helps-you-hurdle-solar-financing.html","title":{"rendered":"Solar Mosaic helps you hurdle solar financing"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/solarmosaic.com\/\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/solarmosaic.com\/sites\/all\/themes\/mosaic\/images\/tiles.jpg\"><\/a>\nFinancing is the biggest hurdle I hear local people cite\nas stopping them from going solar.\nThere are companies that lower that hurdle.\n<p>\nLike\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/01\/solar-no-money-down-in-oregon.html\">SolarCity<\/a> in California and Oregon,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/solarmosaic.com\/\">Mosaic<\/a>, also in California,\nhandles financing.\nMosaic has some interesting additional community wrinkles.\nNo, not just their heavy use of facebook and other social networking. Also this:\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/22459961?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/22459961\">Together we all go solar.<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user6760320\">Solar Mosaic<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\nAlso ways for individuals and groups to buy into panels\n\n<!--more-->\non rooftops\nof businesses, churches, etc., which then pay for the power\nand pay back the original individual investors.\n<p>\nSolar Mosaic calls these investment shares tiles.\nWhatever you call them, it&#8217;s a way to pool money from individuals\nto bootstrap solar, while greatly lowering the financial hurdle.\nThere&#8217;s no reason this couldn&#8217;t work right here in Lowndes County.\n<p>\n-jsq\n<p>\nPS: I would cite somebody for pointing LAKE at this company,\nbut so many people have liked Mosaic on their facebook pages\nI don&#8217;t know who started it.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Financing is the biggest hurdle I hear local people cite as stopping them from going solar. There are companies that lower that hurdle. Like SolarCity in California and Oregon, Mosaic, also in California, handles financing. Mosaic has some interesting additional community wrinkles. No, not just their heavy use of facebook and other social networking. Also [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,40,14,24,4524],"tags":[4648,713,4647,4649,8714,8885,4646],"class_list":["post-2121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-community","category-economy","category-solar","category-solar-mosaic","tag-crowdsourcing","tag-financing","tag-shares","tag-social-networking","tag-solar","tag-solar-mosaic","tag-tiles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-yd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}