Government and Municipal Solar
Solar PV Systems
Solar photovoltaic, or PV, systems are a smart and cost-effective solution to meet the energy needs of a wide variety of government and municipal buildings, institutions and campuses.Whether it's the federal, state, county or municipal level, running a government is an expensive undertaking. And electricity is a large part of that expense because of the large number and relative imposing physical size of many government installations. The fact that most government buildings house large number of workers also contributes to the high cost of supplying those buildings with electricity.
Large-scale government and municipal installations can include county, city or town office buildings as well as wastewater treatment plants, elementary and secondary schools, low income housing projects, hospitals, military bases, post offices, police and fire departments, court houses, prisons and other types of corrections facilities and colleges and universities.
Bringing solar power to the government requires expert management
Large-scale government projects require a significant amount of project planning and incentive management, strategic areas in which Greenskies has a proven record of reliability and success.
Most solar incentives for residential and commercial energy users are tax based, a system that simply won’t work for municipalities and government agencies, which are, after all, the originators and beneficiaries of tax levies. Municipalities, therefore, require the utilization of very different incentive streams. A government solar system requires more creative and complex incentive management, in which very specific skills, such as grant writing and the recruitment of third-party investors, come into play.
In other words, large-scale government projects are not an arena for amateurs.
Solar Power Benefits
Most of the benefits that apply to residential and commercial solar projects, like protection against rising energy costs, reliability with extremely low maintenance, a low-risk, high-reward ROI (return on investment), and the generation of clean, emission-free electrical power, also apply to government/municipal solar energy projects.
Additional benefits include:
Serves as a source of community pride that can improve municipal spirit. Going solar will foster a renewed sense of community pride and spirit among many residents of the town, city or state in which the solar project is located. Communities will find that people tend to respond very positively to institutions with the acumen and foresight to implement cost-saving and environmentally friendly technologies. As many corporations throughout the nation have discovered, going solar can be a great marketing tool and an excellent way to improve an institution’s image and public perception.
Serves as a platform for education. It is one thing to stand before a classroom and preach to students about the nation’s need to move away from the burning of fossil fuels and towards the implementation of more environmentally friendly technologies. It is perhaps even more effective to take those students on a field trip to a local sewer plant, library or perhaps the roof of their own school building to show them an array of solar photovoltaic panels at work.
