by Doug Boucher When Montgomery County officially declared a “climate emergency” in 2017, it adopted a medium-term plan that was a serious attempt to do something about that emergency. The County Council adopted a 10-year goal – to reduce our climate pollution 80% by 2027 – as well as a longer-term goal of reducing net […]
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by Kerrie Kyde and John Snitzer We strongly support the use of solar power, and took advantage of the 2020 Solar United Neighbors cooperative in Montgomery County to install about 8 kilowatts of grid-tied solar production on our Dickerson roof. We have since built a retirement house in Frederick County and installed another solar system,
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By Doug Boucher In 2013, the Town of Poolesville became the first town in Montgomery County, and only the third in the state, to create its own renewable energy system. Located next to the municipal wastewater treatment plant on the town’s eastern edge, the five-acre solar array was relatively small, generating just 1.13 megawatts of
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Karen Lefkowitz Poolesville Green column for the Monocacy Monocle, March 2024 If you are considering installing solar energy at your home you may encounter the term ‘net energy meter’, or ‘net capable meter’. It will be useful to understand what a net energy meter is and what it means. Most people install solar generation at
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