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Solar Co-Op Open For Business In Miami-Dade

WLRN 91.3 FM | By Kate Stein
Published September 6, 2018 at 3:46 PM EDT
Leaders of the Miami-Dade summer solar co-op pose at El Brazo Fuerte Bakery. The bakery is participating in the co-op, which helps homeowners and businesses get group rates on solar panels.
Courtesy of Jody Finver
Leaders of the Miami-Dade summer solar co-op pose at El Brazo Fuerte Bakery. The bakery is participating in the co-op, which helps homeowners and businesses get group rates on solar panels.

Miami-Dade residents interested in installing solar panels can join a co-op this month that will help them through the process.

The organizers say the benefits of 'going solar' extend beyond reducing the carbon emissions that lead to climate change, global warming and sea-level rise.

"Is your roof creating your electricity?" asked Jody Finver, Miami-Dade coordinator for the Solar United Neighbors co-op. "If you can create it yourself, why would you pay somebody else?"

A solar co-op open through Sept. 14 gives Miami-Dade residents more information on "going solar" and helps them negotiate a group rate.

Finver’s group helps people who want to learn more and team up to get a group rate on solar panels and installation. The support is free.

Registration is open through Sept. 14 for the current co-op in Miami-Dade. For more information about the co-op process and other co-ops in South Florida, click here.

This story has been updated with a new photo.

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Kate Stein
Kate Stein can't quite explain what attracts her to South Florida. It's more than just the warm weather (although this Wisconsin native and Northwestern University graduate definitely appreciates the South Florida sunshine). It has a lot to do with being able to travel from the Everglades to Little Havana to Brickell without turning off 8th Street. It's also related to Stein's fantastic coworkers, whom she first got to know during a winter 2016 internship.Officially, Stein is WLRN's environment, data and transportation journalist. Privately, she uses her job as an excuse to rove around South Florida searching for stories à la Carl Hiaasen and Edna Buchanan. Regardless, Stein speaks Spanish and is always thrilled to run, explore and read.
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