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d advice no hard sales pitch After a competitive bidding process, members will select a single solar company to complete the installations, with the help of a neutral solar expert. Any homeowner, nonprofit or business owner can join the co-op, and joining doesn’t mean you have to buy the panels at the end but the power of bulk purchasing means you’ll get a good deal if you do.

No wonder solar co-ops are becoming such a local trend! The nonprofit that’s helping us get this one off the ground Solar United Neighbors has hosted over 75 solar co-ops in Florida since 2015, helping thousands of homes and businesses install their own rooftop pan- els And currently there are great federal incentives even for nonprofit organizations I just wish I’d been able to join one back when I was first going solar! It would’ve made the whole process so much easier

Learn more by attending an info session today, March 15, at 6 p m at the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum, at 3075 Sanibel Captiva Road, Sanibel. You c a n l e a r n m o r e a n d r e g i s t e r a t solarunitedneighbors org/swfl

Sanibel resident Bob Moore is co-chair of the SanibelCaptiva Renewable Energy Working Group. It is a coalition of local organizations working to improve energy efficiency, reduce energy costs, transition to clean energy sources, and improve energy resilience, sustainability and reliability