Another completed PCEF solar project in NE Portland!
In April 2024, Power NW completed another solar installation for the PCEF funded Solarize the Land Trust project Solar for All has been supporting to install solar on permanently affordable homes in the Proud Ground Community Land Trust. This 6.6kW install in NE Portland will save the current homeowner - and future income qualified homeowners ~$500 (more if rates continue to go up) and avoid over 1.2 tons of carbon dioxide annually by generating free electricity from the sun! Thanks to Power NW, Spark NW and PCEF for supporting this new solar installation in Portland!
Celebrating Nine Years of Solar Projects!
Nine years ago, in March of 2015, Solar for All completed our first installation of solar panels on an affordable homes in SE Portland. We kicked off our partnership with Community Vision (cvision.org) by providing 7.1 kilowatts of panels manufactured by Solar World at their (former) Hillsboro, Oregon manufacturing facility. (Oh, how times have changed!) on two homes owned by Jean P. and Phyllis K. pictured above. Asked about how the solar panels have helped over the past nine years, Jean said, "I like the solar panels; they look cool and I like saving money." And that's what Solar for All's mission remains about - saving money and the planet, one family at a time.
We estimate that over the 9 years these panels have been installed, Jean and Phyills have saved a combined $7,200 on their electric bills while avoiding 12.5 tons of carbon dioxide because of the free solar energy these panels produced!
We'd like to thank our partners and donors for helping us install solar on now 40 homes in Oregon and SW Washington over the last nine years. Thanks to your continued support, we plan to keep installing solar on affordable homes - at no cost to the homeowners or their housing providers - for another nine (or more) years!
We estimate that over the 9 years these panels have been installed, Jean and Phyills have saved a combined $7,200 on their electric bills while avoiding 12.5 tons of carbon dioxide because of the free solar energy these panels produced!
We'd like to thank our partners and donors for helping us install solar on now 40 homes in Oregon and SW Washington over the last nine years. Thanks to your continued support, we plan to keep installing solar on affordable homes - at no cost to the homeowners or their housing providers - for another nine (or more) years!
New 2024 Portland Solar Installs!
Our second PCEF funded project of 2024 on a Proud Ground affordable home in North Portland completed installation early in March. Another 6.6 kW of solar providing clean energy, and lower utility bills to a family in Portland! Thanks to Power Northwest for completing the installation, PCEF, Spark Northwest and Proud Ground for partnering on this project!
Our first install of 2024 is complete! Upliftic Energy installed the first (of at least 10 planned) Portland Clean Energy Fund supported solar installations on permanently affordable housing providers Proud Ground. We're working with Proud Ground and Spark Northwest, along with three local solar installers, to install solar on at least ten affordable homes in the Portland City Limits. Thanks to our great partners, and PCEF, for enabling us to Save the Planet, One (new) Family at a Time!
New Solar Install Partner!
Solar for All would like to announce our new install partner in 2024: Power Northwest!
Power Northwest will be installing a new system on a Community Vision owned affordable home in SE Portland this year, and they are donating the panels for this project!
Even better?? The install on this three bedroom affordable home will be large enough to power the separate "tiny home" ADU on the lot!
Stay tuned for project updates and photos!
Power Northwest will be installing a new system on a Community Vision owned affordable home in SE Portland this year, and they are donating the panels for this project!
Even better?? The install on this three bedroom affordable home will be large enough to power the separate "tiny home" ADU on the lot!
Stay tuned for project updates and photos!