Attention Willy Street Grocery Co-op Fans — Attention Solar Fans — Come to one of two open house bond information meetings to learn more about supporting solar and investing in member bonds through the Legacy Solar Co-op.
5:30 – 7:30 pm Open House Bond Sales Event on both Monday, June 27th and Wednesday, June 29th at the Community Room at Willy East’s store.
Solar Bonds to fund the new rooftop solar at Willy East’s store are now for sale to Members of the Legacy Solar Co-op. Starting a Membership is only $25.00 and enables you to buy into group funded projects like this at $250 slices-of-sun.
Two slices of sun is equivalent to one large solar panel and is worth over 350 kilowatt-hours a year in clean energy savings.
Willy Street will use the energy savings from the solar and from the 214 LED lights to pay the Legacy Solar Co-op’s bondholders between 3% and 5% interest on Bonds used to capitalize LSC’s solar loan fund.
Our solar loans are securitized by the value of the solar assets on the roof so this Legacy Solar Co-op is a safe and reliable way to share in the benefits of solar energy.
Join the Legacy Solar Co-op and Share a Slice-of-Sun with the Willy Co-op today and earn a decent return by investing in sunshine!
Solar Legacy Projects
/in Projects /by DandelionSolar Legacy Projects are solar energy installations built on community institutions like schools, libraries, or churches. They have been designed and built by local stakeholders. We call them “legacy” projects because solar generates pollution-free electricity for the community and future generations long after it’s installed –– often 30 years or more.
You too can help support these projects through our Slice of Sun Solar Bonds program. Any member can earn between 3% and 5% interest on their bonds purchased through the co-op. Your contribution by purchasing solar bonds allows us to help finance these community projects. After 7 years a bond holder can receive a dividends payment or choose to reinvest at a higher interest rate.
So even if you live in the shade you can actively help grow solar energy in Wisconsin! Learn more about the Slice of Sun Solar Bonds program.
Community Solar: The T.B. Scott Free Library
/in Projects /by DandelionThe T.B. Free Scott Library serves the Merrill area through traditional and innovative services, connecting people to their community and the world. It promotes reading, supports lifelong learning, ensures free and open access to ideas, and provides opportunities for recreation.
The Library has employed both high and low tech ways to save energy for many years, so going solar is just another step in becoming more environmentally friendly and making taxpayer dollars stretch further. Read more
Housing Initiatives of Madison
/in Projects /by DandelionHousing Initiatives is a Madison nonprofit organization that has been providing peace, hope, and shelter for Madison area men, women, and veterans for over 20 years.
The Challenge
Housing Initiatives own several buildings throughout Madison to give their clients a safe, warm place to call home. Residents use a lot of electricity because they are home often and at a variety of times. Energy for heating and lighting is a significant recurring expense.
In the summer of 2016, a supporter of Housing Initiatives (and of solar power) approached Legacy Solar Co-op to see if we could facilitate a solar project on some of their units. Read more
Madison nonprofit Housing Initiatives are setting up to save 40% on their power bill
/in News /by DandelionHousing Initiatives has been providing peace, hope, and shelter for Madison area men, women, and veterans for over 20 years. They work to end homelessness for those who live with severe mental illnesses. Legacy Solar Co-op is proud to be partnering with such a wonderful organization.
Legacy Solar Co-op will provide solar on 2 buildings that Housing Initiatives owns and maintains. Our tax sponsor for this project is a long-time advocate for this and other organizations in Dane County. Together, we will help Housing Initiatives achieve lower energy bills by helping them generate their own electricity behind-the-meter, saving them about 40% on their power bills. Read more
Legacy Solar Co-op teams with MREA on solar carport project
/in News /by DandelionLegacy Solar Co-op is working with the MREA to develop a 100 kilowatt solar carport to be located on the main grounds of MREA’s headquarters in Custer, Wisconsin. We will rely on supporters of MREA and members of LSC to buy Solar Bonds to capitalize a fund that will allow MREA to get the best value out of this development.
LSC is looking to sell $240,000 in solar bonds through our Co-op to get this project off the ground this summer!
Learn more about solar bonds and how they help fund community solar projects like this one – while earning you interest!
>> Learn more about the Slice of Sun Solar Bonds program >>
Two open house events at Willy Street Co-op East
/in Events, News /by DandelionAttention Willy Street Grocery Co-op Fans — Attention Solar Fans — Come to one of two open house bond information meetings to learn more about supporting solar and investing in member bonds through the Legacy Solar Co-op.
5:30 – 7:30 pm Open House Bond Sales Event on both Monday, June 27th and Wednesday, June 29th at the Community Room at Willy East’s store.
Solar Bonds to fund the new rooftop solar at Willy East’s store are now for sale to Members of the Legacy Solar Co-op. Starting a Membership is only $25.00 and enables you to buy into group funded projects like this at $250 slices-of-sun.
Two slices of sun is equivalent to one large solar panel and is worth over 350 kilowatt-hours a year in clean energy savings.
Willy Street will use the energy savings from the solar and from the 214 LED lights to pay the Legacy Solar Co-op’s bondholders between 3% and 5% interest on Bonds used to capitalize LSC’s solar loan fund.
Our solar loans are securitized by the value of the solar assets on the roof so this Legacy Solar Co-op is a safe and reliable way to share in the benefits of solar energy.
Join the Legacy Solar Co-op and Share a Slice-of-Sun with the Willy Co-op today and earn a decent return by investing in sunshine!
Willy Street Grocery Co-op East
/in Projects /by DandelionLSC has signed a contract with Willy Street Grocery Co-op to add 20 kilowatts of solar to the roof of their east side store (on Willy Street), as well as 214 LED lamps to replace the fluorescents now being operated for 15 hours a day. Between the LED retro-fits and the solar, we plan to save Willy Street over 40,000 kilowatt-hours per year in MGE-supplied power. Read more
Sauk Area Solar Committee Public Talk
/in News /by DandelionThe Sauk Area Solar Committee of the Legacy Solar Co-op hosted a public talk Saturday, January 30th at the Ruth Culver Prairie du Sac Library in front of over 70 members of the public! Trang Donovan of Unlimited Renewable Energy (URE) gave a very good technical overview of the process to put solar on a rooftop. Tyler Huebner of RENEW Wisconsin gave a great little talk on the state of solar development in Wisconsin.
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News from the 2016 RENEW Wisconsin Energy Policy Summit
/in News /by DandelionThe 2016 RENEW Wisconsin Energy Policy Summit was held at the Monona Terrace January 21st and was well attended with renewable energy advocates and policy experts from all over Wisconsin. Vermont’s Green Mountain Power was represented in the form of the keynote speaker and GMP CEO Mary Powell. Under her leadership, there have been very impressive results switching from old to new energy systems, and most impressive is the solar portfolio tipping 30% of their peak demand! Here’s a link for more on Green Mountain Power. Read more
Join us at Renew Wisconsin
/in Events, featured, News /by DandelionLegacy Solar Co-op will have a table at RENEW WISCONSIN’s 6th annual Energy Policy Summit, to be held at the Monona Terrace in downtown Madison on Thursday, January 21st. LSC’s Executive Director, Kurt Reinhold, and Treasurer, Mark Warnick, along with member John Eric Allen will be attending.
Union Cab of Madison will also share a table with LSC and help promote the sale of Co-op Bonds for their 20 kW solar project, which went live in December. Legacy Solar Co-op membership applications and bond information packets will be available.
There will be speakers and workshops, as well as food and drink available all day, and a luncheon with keynote speakers and awards to be hosted by RENEW WISCONSIN. For more information on this event, check out this link — http://www.renewwisconsin-blog.org/
Hope to see you there! Registration is through the RENEW WISCONSIN website — http://renewwisconsin.org/2016_Summit/