KINGSTON – The Solarize Hudson Valley
program to provide community education and group purchasing of solar facilities
to power homes and businesses is advancing.
Led by Sustainable Hudson Valley and Catskill Mountainkeeper through their
RenewableNY program with funding from NYSERDA, Solarize has been piloting
in Kingston and is now rolling out with concentrated workshops and solar
open houses in the “hub” communities of Beacon, Warwick, Goshen,
Woodstock and Rosendale.
Launch events will be held tonight (Wednesday) in Warwick and Goshen,
Saturday in Beacon, next Monday in Woodstock and next Wednesday in Rosendale.
Sustainable Hudson Valley Executive Director Melissa Everett said there
is financial assistance for homeowners and small businesses looking to
go solar.
“People have quoted $25,000 to $30,000 as an upfront cost. You take
a third of that off through state incentives. You take another third off
for your federal tax credits. You take off 10 to 15 percent more for the
Solarized discount and you are down to under $10,000 in a lot of cases,”
she said.
That can be financed or the system can be leased.
More information is available at www.solarize-hudsonvalley.org .
