This could be a model for community solar.

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In other solar news, the Westmill Solar Cooperative launched the world's largest community-owned solar project in the UK, a group of African teenagers developed a pee-powered energy generator and Tunisian company Saphon Energy unveiled a new bladeless, bird-friendly wind turbine.

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Asked about how different such e-learning centres would be from community multimedia centres, he explained that the e-learning centres would be solar-powered, genuinely community-led, and dependent on local expertise.

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Plans have been drawn up to bring a "community-owned" solar power plant to a Somerset village.

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Haagenson has been looking at how energy is being used across the state and what things are available in each community whether it is solar, hydro, oil, gas or other resources.

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Keller says that as the project grows, community members trained in maintaining and repairing the solar power systems will be able to sell affordable energy to other residents.

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Nearly 200 solar panels are to be installed on the roof of a community centre in Gloucester.

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Many retailers know to put up websites, run Google ads, show up in community events, create funny videos, hold the solar version of the Tupperware party and use social media to drive interest.

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And in the evening: A local eco-community provides the entertainment with a Bollywood movie in a solar powered cinema accompanied by popcorn made in a solar cooker.

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