Solar panels, vegetation and buzzing bees could all appear on Southeast Como roofs this summer.
The Southeast Como Improvement Association received a $3,000 grant from Clean Energy Resource Teams, or CERTs, to survey all of the unused flat roof space in the neighborhood and Mid-City Industrial area and to gauge property owners’ interest in installing the three options on their roofs.
SECIA has partnered with Minnesota Community Solar and the Minnesota Green Roofs Council to act as a matchmaker between willing property owners and sustainable technologies. SECIA neighborhood coordinator Ricardo McCurley said the project began with a connection between the SECIA Environmental Committee and Minnesota Community Solar.
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