San Jose 信用合作社开展团体购买太阳能项目

San Jose 信用合作社，位于加州的San Jose（加州西部城市），目前该信用合作社新推出了一项San Jose 太阳能团购项目，这种团购意在减少安装民用太阳能系统的花费，大约有130个城市的工人和退休人员签订了购买协议。

团系购买项目是San Jose信用合作社和San Jose太阳能美国城市计划组联合推出的项目。是建立在俄勒冈州的Portland市，曾经也顺利实施过类似的项目的基础上进行的。

SunWater 和SunPower通过网络销售渠道，将会签订购买协议的用户一同去评估来测量正确的尺寸和设计太阳能热系统安装位置，这将于今年9月到和2011年2月。

The San Jose Credit Union in San Jose, Calif., has debuted the San Jose Employee Solar Group Buy program, an employee group-buy program designed to reduce the costs for installing residential solar systems. A group of 130 city employees and retirees negotiated the group buy.

The program is the result of a partnership between the San Jose Credit Union and San Jose's Solar America City Program. It builds upon the success of similar community group solar purchases in Portland, Ore., and other cities across the country and takes the model from the neighborhood and city-specific level to the organizational level, the San Jose Credit Union says.

SunPower Corp. and SunWater Solar, the solar providers chosen for the project, were selected through a competitive bid process. An independent, seven-member volunteer evaluation committee selected the vendors. SunWater Solar and SunPower, through their dealer network, will work with participating homeowners to perform site assessments to determine the correct size and design of the photovoltaic and/or solar thermal system. Installations will take place between September of 2010 and February of 2011.

The San Jose Employee Solar Group Buy program aims to install solar electric and solar thermal systems on more than 130 homes, adding over 300 kW of new solar electric capacity throughout the Bay Area.

文章作者：索比太阳能