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Your neighbors are going solar. Don't you want to join them?

In the Bronx...

A retired psychology professor installed 3.7 kW on her roof and then threw a party! Read more about it in the newsletter.

Some Solar Electric (Photovoltaic) installations in NYC
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BoroughInstallationSize (kW)Neighborhood
Brooklyn 6-15 Community Garden 0.128 Park Slope
Brooklyn Brownstone 4.07 Carroll Gardens
Brooklyn Milligan Brownstone 2.22 Park Slope
Brooklyn Nassau Brewery Ice House Apartments 7 Crown Heights
Brooklyn St. Matthews Church 2.7 Crown Heights
Brooklyn Stillwell Ave Subway Terminal 250 Coney Island
The Bronx Affordable Housing 2 Melrose
The Bronx Bronx Home 3.7
The Bronx Gun Hill Bus Depot 300 Norwood
Manhattan 15 W 37th. 5.55 Midtown
Manhattan 179 Rivington St. 2.42 Lower East Side
Manhattan Conde Nast Building, 4 Times Square 20 Midtown
Manhattan Muni-Meters 0 Everywhere
Manhattan Museum of Jewish Heritage 36 Battery Park City
Manhattan Solar Powered Construction Sites 0 Battery Park City
Manhattan Stuyvesant Cove Environmental Learning Center 1 Stuyvesant Town
Manhattan The Solaire 33 Battery Park City
Queens Installation 2.7 Maspeth
Queens New York City Transit Authority Maspeth Warehouse 16 Maspeth
Queens Residence 3.96 Far Rockaway
Queens Rikers Island Compost Facility 36 Rikers Island


Some Solar Thermal (Water Heating) installations in NYC
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BoroughInstallation Neighborhood
Brooklyn Commercial Building Greenpoint
Manhattan 140-142 W. 4th St Greenwich Village

If you know of an installation that is not listed here, please tell us!

GE Announces Environmental Initiatives
General Electric announces a major investment in so-called green technology, in a move that may pressure the energy industry to develop policies to limit the levels of carbon dioxide and other environmentally harmful agents produced by their businesses.
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Rethinking the Grid
Distributed Generation and Urban Development
By Jeff Perlman
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Solar Energy: Basic in Brooklyn
New technology - A Viable Source For Many Communities
by Rahul Chadha

As Natural as Indoor Toilets
A Case for Solar
by J Milligan

Upcoming Events

Solar Energy Worshop
Solar Domestic
Hot Water & Space Heating
Workshop
June 23-24, 2005

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