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Green Building NEWS
The Latest on Sustainability and Renewable Energy
Rising Sun
Community solar is making green
power an option for anyone with an
electric bill.
C ONSUMER AND BUSINESS demand for solar CREDIT: PAVEMENT PRESERVATION & RECYCLING ALLIANCE
power is growing faster than ever. Demand by
persons and companies that normally can’t get it
is expected to grow even faster.
According to a new study by GTM Research,
community solar—systems that are shared by multiple
residences or businesses, with the bill split between them—
has grown by 53 percent since 2013, more than twice the 26
percent rate of all solar systems.
Community solar is becoming popular because it allows Paving tools. The new RoadResource.org website incorporates tools,
families that normally lack access to traditional systems—such calculators, technical information and advice to help roadway managers
as those whose homes do not have roofs or with technical and other project managers make the wisest decisions when working
limitations—to have the same benets of green power as other with pavement.
homeowners, according to the study, The Vision for Community
Solar: A Roadmap for 2030. Road Recycling Hub
PPRA’s new website offers free info on
roadway preservation and recycling.
N AN EFFORT to promote successful, sustainable use of asphalt
pavement during construction, the Pavement Preservation and
Recycling Alliance (PPRA) has launched RoadResource.org
(https://roadresource.org/), a digital hub oering more than 500
I pages of accurate information about pavement preservation,
recycling and optimized network management.
According to AEMA President Mark Ishee, the site compiles
relevant information with a standardized technical menu on 18
pavement preservation, recycling and emulsion treatments, alongside
useful network comparison calculators. The site allows users to learn
CREDIT: GTM RESEARCH and explore freely, applying concepts and strategies to their own
pavements and networks, and provides a chance to see rsthand how
progressive network approaches can impact taxpayers, pavement
Bringing the heat. Demand for solar energy has become so strong, conditions and the bottom line.
“We wanted to give users the benefit of sitting down with
households unable to install traditional units are turning to experts in the industry,” says Scott Bergkamp, a representative with
community systems to meet their needs—which translates to the International Slurry Surfacing Association (ISSA), a primary
busier times for installers.
contributor to the site. “It’s as if we’re driving the roads with you,
That’s great news for up to 74 million homeowners and pointing out what we see and what we know to be helpful.”
businesses. “Community solar gives all 151 million electricity PPRA leadership plans to roll out additional communication
customers in the U.S. an opportunity to directly participate in initiatives, including newsletters to agencies, educational webinars,
solar,” the study notes. “Community solar gives all customers and informative printed and digital materials to serve as an
the ability to choose local clean electricity that can support local educational and functional hub for roadway managers across North
economic development, resiliency and healthier communities.” GB
America, according to Ishee. GB
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