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Council cuts solar panel fees for businesses

Original post made on Nov 6, 2009

The City Council approved lower fees for commercial solar panel installations Tuesday after a study by the Sierra Club found Mountain View's fees to be among the highest in the Bay Area.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, November 6, 2009, 11:59 AM

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Posted by Bruce Karney
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Nov 6, 2009 at 5:30 pm

This is good news for small-medium businesses and non-profits that own their own buildings. In the example given in the article, the cost reduction is about 2% of total system price. However, because real prices are actually quite a bit lower than the figure given, the percentage change is larger.

Churches could be important beneficiaries of this change, because many of them are interested in installing solar panels and they tend to be very price-sensitive as well as environmentally conscious.


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