Community-shared solar can allow individuals and organizations unable to take advantage of on-site renewable generation to participate in distributed generation and support the development of renewable energy. During this webinar held on Nov. 28, 2012, Erica Schroeder from the Interstate Renewable Energy Council, Inc. (IREC) examined how successful community-shared solar programs are run. In addition to providing information about on-the-ground successes, Ms. Schroeder distilled information gathered across programs, and offered advice about characteristics and components of successful programs based on IREC's research. Finally, Rich Swope from Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU), a municipal utility in Colorado, presented on CSU's successful Community Solar Gardens program, providing some detail on the program's structure, how it got started, how its implementation has gone and any lessons learned, and plans for the program's future.
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