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Sustainable Tallahassee, in conjunction with Leon County and the City of Tallahassee, hosted a Solar Advocacy meeting on Thursday, July 16th, at 2:30 PM in the Amtrak building at 918 Railroad Ave. Solar professionals and other interested citizens attended as we celebrated our successes and identified local barriers to solar power installations. Both the City and County were represented at the meeting and have a high level of interest in ideas that will help remove barriers and increase the use of solar power in our area.

This was the first meeting of the Sustainable Tallahassee Solar Advocacy group and we are pleased to be working with our local governments. The goals of the solar advocacy program are:

• To increase the implementation of the use of solar power by the City of Tallahassee’s, Leon County, Leon Schools and TEC.
• To increase the use of solar power by residences, non-profits and businesses by improving utility incentives and removing barriers.
• To research better methods of encouraging citizens to acquire solar like the Gainesville FiT and the Berkeley model.
• To provide accurate, unbiased information to citizens about solar power – production and cost.

For more information, contact:

James Young
Project Leader, Solar Advocates
850-322-0564