By Steve Orr
Democrat & Chronicle
A summer-long program to help Rochester residents go solar is about to get underway, with aspirations of bringing about a dramatic increase in the number of city properties sporting photovoltaic panels.
The program, Solarize the Flower City, is built around a series of public meetings to educate residents and business owners on solar energy and explain how to take advantage of government incentives and special discounts. Though the meetings are open to all, the focus for this phase of the program is the southeast quadrant of the city.
Solarize the Flower City, which is sponsored by the city and supported by New York state, hopes to bring about 100 new solar installations in the southeast by summer’s end.
That would be a sizable increase. At present there are no more than 40 homes and small businesses in the city with solar panels, according to a list of projects that have received state financial support. Of that number, at least half are in the southeast quadrant.
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