{"id":7660,"date":"2019-08-09T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=7660"},"modified":"2019-08-09T12:24:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T19:24:01","slug":"community-members-invited-to-solarize-yakima-workshops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/community-members-invited-to-solarize-yakima-workshops\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Members Invited to Solarize Yakima Workshops"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>People living in Yakima who are\ninterested in installing solar panels as part of the <em>Solarize Yakima<\/em> campaign are invited to attend one of three\nupcoming workshops in order to qualify for a free site assessment and a group\ndiscount on installation costs.&nbsp; The\ncampaign is a partnership between the City of Yakima and Spark Northwest, a\nnon-profit committed to accelerating a shift to clean energy one community at a\ntime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Workshops will be held on Thursday, August 15<sup>th<\/sup> at Yakima\u2019s Harman Senior Center (101 N. 65<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue), Wednesday, September 25<sup>th<\/sup> at the Henry Beauchamp, Jr. Community Center (1211 S. 7<sup>th<\/sup> Street), and Thursday, October 24<sup>th<\/sup> at the Yakima County 1<sup>st<\/sup>\nStreet Conference Room (223 N. 1<sup>st<\/sup> Street).&nbsp; All of the workshops will begin at 6:00 pm\nand last about 90 minutes.&nbsp; The September\n25<sup>th<\/sup> workshop will be conducted in Spanish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People can register for one of\nthe workshops by clicking on the following link &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/solarizenw.org\/campaigns\/2317\/\">https:\/\/solarizenw.org\/campaigns\/2317\/<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMany people don\u2019t realize that\nthe price of solar has dropped over 50% in the past five years, so going solar\nis more achievable than you might think,\u201d said Jill Eikenhorst, Spark Northwest\nProject Manager. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A volunteer committee is\ncurrently undergoing a competitive process to select a local solar installer to\nprovide group purchase installations during the Solarize Yakima campaign. Participants in the campaign will be\neligible for the group discount in addition to a federal tax incentive for the\ninstallation of solar energy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\nincentive, however, won\u2019t be around for long. A federal tax credit will step\ndown in value beginning in 2020, from 30% of the installation cost this year to\n26% for systems installed next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Solarize Yakima campaign is part\nof the Solar Plus initiative, a three-year joint effort led by the Washington\nState Department of Commerce and funded by the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s\nSolar Energy Technologies office, and is intended to develop strategies for\nincreasing solar energy and modernizing energy infrastructure.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spark Northwest was founded in\n2001 and, through renewable energy projects and policy reform, envisions a\nregion powered by clean energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Solarize-Yakima-Workshops-News-Release.pdf\">Solarize-Yakima-Workshops-News-Release<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Solarize-Yakima-Workshops-News-Release.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People living in Yakima who are interested in installing solar panels as part of the Solarize Yakima campaign are invited to attend one of three upcoming workshops in order to qualify for a free site assessment and a group discount on installation costs.&nbsp; The campaign is a partnership between the City of Yakima and Spark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7662,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660\/revisions\/7662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}