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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Clean Energy Roadshow comes to Florida


Clean Energy Roadshow, a 50 state tour to promote collaborative strategies for market development and job creation in energy efficiency and the clean energy economy, came to Punta Gorda last week to hear how Floridians are leveraging private capital to make such improvements here. The Roadshow was hosted by Gil Sperling with the U.S. Department of Energy’s (USDOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

There was a consensus among stakeholders attending the Roadshow that Florida’s commercial buildings, universally covered with flat roofs baking in the sun, would provide ideal locations for solar panels. Owners of these buildings should be able to sell electricity they generate back to their tenants, but ...