{"id":489,"date":"2018-02-12T21:44:54","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T02:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/conservation\/?p=489"},"modified":"2018-02-12T21:44:54","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T02:44:54","slug":"solar-co-operatives-topic-of-feb-21-lakeland-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=489","title":{"rendered":"Solar Co-operatives Topic Of Feb. 21 Lakeland Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:1pt\">I<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you have been wondering how to bring solar energy to your neighborhood, attending a meeting Feb. 21 at the United Methodist Temple, 2700 South Florida Avenue in Lakeland is a good start.\n<\/p>\n<p>The meeting, which is organized by the Polk County League of Women Voters and Solar United Neighbors of Florida, will begin at 3:30 p.m.\n<\/p>\n<p>Solar co-ops involve <span style=\"color:black; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">homeowners banding together to form a group interested in obtaining rooftop solar. The effort involves seeking proposals from licensed installers to bid at a price certain per kWh , evaluating\/comparing all the bids on behalf of the homeowners as they select an installer for the co-op, and finally assisting the homeowners as they finalize contracts for installation.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:black; font-family:Segoe UI; font-size:10pt\">This is part of a broader campaign called Solar United Neighbors. You can get more information at this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarunitedneighbors.org\/florida\/\">website.<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sierra supports the use of more alternative forms of energy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from conventional power sources and sees solar as a more sustainable form of generating electricity.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I If you have been wondering how to bring solar energy to your neighborhood, attending a meeting Feb. 21 at the United Methodist Temple, 2700 South Florida Avenue in Lakeland is a good start. The meeting, which is organized by the Polk County League of Women Voters and Solar United Neighbors of Florida, will begin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gci"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}