For a fixed monthly fee, homeowners can sign up for solar energy as a service from companies like Solar City, SunRun, or Sungevity.
It also makes each Solar City installation team potentially doubly productive, if it can design a solar installation and do an energy audit in one shot.
Like Edison in New York City, solar must deliver a better service for a cheaper price if it wishes to displace the burning of oil for light.
Last year, the U.S Army Corps of Engineers installed more than 1, 000 solar-powered street lights in Fallujah, a predominantly Sunni city in central Iraq that was the scene of a brutal battle between insurgents and U.S. soldiers in 2004.
Aside from the discounted group price and performance guarantee, program participants will get a special pre-negotiated lease for 10 years with a buyout and free technical assistance from the city to evaluate their solar options.
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Mr Cereste has been criticised for backing schemes including a 900-acre (364 hectare) wind and solar farm near the city.
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In Rizhao, a coastal Chinese city of 3 million people, more than 90% of households use solar power to heat their water, Lovins said.
Artist Luzinterruptus fitted 10, 000 books that had been discarded by public libraries with LED lights and covered the streets of Melbourne with them, and in an exciting development the much-anticipated Low Line underground park in NYC debuted a full-scale model of their incredible fiber-optic solar-concentrating technology in New York City's lower east side.
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Haidar Talib, an Emirati travelled the 141km from Masdar City to Al Thiqa Club for Handicapped in Sharjah in 14 hours, 28 seconds on a solar-powered wheelchair.
His vision includes making the power-hungry Sun Belt city into a leader in the new energy economy through initiatives like the largest municipally owned mega solar project and the Decade of Downtown inner-city revitalization program.
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