Black Rock Solar

As part of our committment with the ROTHBURY festival to install solar power at a nearby school, we’re looking to bring new partners in to help us streeeetch our donations, so we can build even more free solar power. Here’s the message going out on their site today. Got parts? Get in touch!

CALL OUT FOR SOLAR PARTNERS!

The Rothbury Solar Schools program seeks partners for our Shelby High School
solar installation, powered by Black Rock Solar and RE:VOLVE.
Specifically, we’re interested in hearing from people who can help us get great deals on
the equipment we’ll need to make green power from the sun. Every
penny we save will get plowed back into the array, so we can install
more solar, and save more money for the students at Shelby High
School. 100% of all the money saved from this program will stay in
the school for the benefit of the students.

So, if you know what these are, and where to get a good deal on them, get in touch!

Inverters
PV panels
Racking systems ( roof mount, likely ballasted)
Combiner boxes
Disconnects
BOS materials
-tom (at) blackrocksolar.org.

We’ve been selected as the official solar partner for the just-announced ROTHBURY festival, a four day, camp out concert event in Rothbury, Michigan. They’re committing a minimum of $50,000–with the possibility of much more, donated by participants– to build a permanent solar array on the nearby high school.

Read about the show, see the lineup here, and a news clip about it here, and all about our project here, under Special Rothbury Initiatives. It’s a really great event, with a really forward looking approach to how large events can go green!

In other news, we were honored yesterday by the Washoe County Commission, in a ceremony during their monthly meeting. They passed a “Resolution of Accomplishment” noting the work of Black Rock Solar, Sierra Pacific, MMA Renewable Ventures, SCHOTT Solar, and the Washoe Co. School District in “their effort to improve the quality of life for the Gerlach students” through our installation at the Gerlach school. Aw, shucks.

And then we toured the Children’s Discovery Museum in Reno, to inspect the site for a planned installation on that new facility, later this fall.

And last night, the Searchlight Town Advisory Board approved our moving forward with a plan to build solar on the Harry Reid Elementary School there in Searchlight, south of Las Vegas.

There’s more, but that’s enough for today, stay tuned!

As reported here, on February 15th a rebate check from Sierra Pacific  and the Solar Generations program will be handed over to Washoe County School District, to help reimburse some of the cost of the array Black Rock Solar built there in December. It’s our understanding that the meters will be set tomorrow, and this array will be online this week!