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Webinar on financing your school district's solar panels in now online!
KyotoUSA and SunPower Corp. recently hosted a free webinar on renewable energy systems for public schools and how school districts can finance them. The webinar is now available on-line. You can get to the one hour broadcast from this link.
Qualified School Construction Bonds Awarded (updated September 2009)
More than 200 CA school districts applied for QSCBs (0% interest bonds), seeking more than $3.2 billion for a variety of construction projects including renewable energy systems. With only $700 million available for CA districts, the California Department of Education held a lottery to determine who would receive allocations.Who were the 2009 winners?...
Solar America Showcase Grant to East Bay Schools
April 29th 2009: KyotoUSA, through our fiscal sponsor the Sequoia Foundation, received a Department of Energy Solar America Showcase grant to be used on behalf of a partnership consisting of Oakland, Berkeley, and West Contra Costa Unified School Districts. Learn more...
HELiOS Project
The HELiOS Project began as an effort by KyotoUSA and Berkeley residents concerned about climate change who saw an opportunity to turn that concern into local action. We realized that it is possible to reduce local greenhouse gas emissions by encouraging our schools to reduce their energy consumption and install renewable energy systems on their roofs. Doing so would provide a financial benefit to our schools and give us an opportunity to show our children that we take the real threat of global warming seriously. Learn more...
One School's Solar Project Fuels a Movement
In August 2008, KyotoUSA released a report, using Berkeley's Washington Elementary School as a case study, demonstrating that installing solar systems on schools leads to a quantifiable increase in jobs, boosts the local economy, reduces carbon dioxide and other harmful toxic air emissions and improves the health of those living in the area where the electricity is generated. Watch a video about this exciting project. The study also shows that the electricity derived from the photovoltaic systems improves the long-term economic well-being of the school district. Click here to Learn more...
