Nonprofit promotes solar co-op in Worcester County

Group purchasing power could leverage discounts on cell installation fees

Recent conversations about solar power in the area have focused on mass scale, enterprise-level operations using acres and acres of land and both producing and selling gigawatt after gigawatt.

After a few meetings next month, a countywide effort may develop between homeowners throughout Worcester, each producing a piece of a larger puzzle that could significantly affect the way the county keeps the lights on.

The idea, as explained by Corey Ramsden, the Maryland program manager for the nonprofit Community Power Network, is for residents to band together and use their collective purchasing power to leverage a discount on installation fees for solar cells on their property.

“We’re agnostic on the reasons for adopting solar power — if they’re for environmental or independent causes,” he said.

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