I thought this was very cool! Please do this in my neighborhood. 
azdailysun.com
About 200 households and up to eight businesses in and near east Flagstaff could get solar panels for free as part of a pilot project to turn neighborhoods into power producers.Arizona Public Service is proposing to buy solar panels and pay local contractors to install them on houses and businesses from Smoke Rise and Doney Park to Lenox Park. “We think it’s important to build awareness within our customer base, and we couldn’t think of a better place to start than Flagstaff,” said APS Chief Executive Officer Don Brandt.
The utility would buy, own and maintain the solar panels on private homes and businesses and receive the electricity — typically equating to about half of the electricity used in a local home.
Homeowners would receive a locked-in 20-year rate on portions of their electric bills for offering to have the 2, 3, or 4-kilowatt solar systems, and allowing easements to access them.
The $14.7 million proposal to generate electricity in this way is novel statewide in that it knocks down to zero the initial price of installing a solar system on a house.
In all, the utility would generate 1.5 megawatts of renewable electricity. That’s enough to supply about 230 homes from Sheep Hill to nearly Sugarloaf Peak, at typical energy use rates for homes in that area.
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May 19th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
About 200 households could get solar panels for free – ya with homes priced at over $300,000 somebody needed to help out the folks! Nice idea lets see what happens with it.
November 12th, 2009 at 8:38 am
Small domestic application! Good! Step in right direction! Now, We need a “Manhattan Project” sized effort – Solar Power Project for the South Western deserts to provide perpetual power source for the U.S., North American continent! Remember: once up and running these things are “Perpetual” they need no re-fueling, and as long as the sun shines they produce power! They never, ever “run out” like oil wells, ! They really are “Perpetual” This is why the large corporations, heavily invested in conventional energy resources, discourage them! They can’t take the competition! The Hoover Dam – is eternal! as long as rain falls, the dam fills, no re-fueling required! Same for Solar, Wind, Wave, Tidal, Geothermal power sources – enemies of the oil barons, oil cartels, Exxons, Mobiles, Coal Lobby’s, Even big government hasn’t figured out how to tax their output! Free up America! Vote pro-environmentally friendly, Green power every time! Cut America’s oil deficit! Good move Arizona!