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Solar Urbana Champaign is returning in 2020 with version 5.0! Offered by the City of Urbana, Prairie Rivers Network, and the Midwest Renewable Energy Association, we invite home and business owners throughout Champaign County, Piatt County, and Vermilion County to participate in this program to help pool their buying power to secure significant discounts that make installing solar more affordable. This program builds on previous years of successful programs that helped over 200 local property owners go solar.

Solar Urbana Champaign is finished for the 2020 year.

Thank you to the City of Urbana and Prairie Rivers Network for their partnership on this program.

See the amazing results of Solar Urbana-Champaign below!

Did you miss our Solar Power Hour presentations?

You can still watch a recording of our virtual Solar Power Hour to participate in this program! To find complementary resources to this presentation check out our virtual resource packet. Afterward, you can sign up for a free, no obligation site assessment and quote with this program’s installer, StraightUp Solar, by filling out this short form. 

The deadline to participate in this program is September 30th, so don’t delay. Your solar journey awaits!

How to Participate

Did you miss out on the Solar Urbana-Champaign 5.0 program?

Don’t worry, you can get in line for Solar Urbana-Champaign 6.0, launching in spring of 2021! Just fill out the short form below to sign up to receive important updates about the launch of next year’s program.

SIGN UP
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Want more information about this program? Learn about the MREA’s history of facilitating these programs, the success this program has previously experienced, and a biography for this program’s installer, StraightUp Solar, on our About page.

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Geothermal Urbana-Champaign

Did you hear the big news?

Through a strong partnership between the City of Urbana and Geothermal Alliance of Illinois, the Midwest Renewable Energy Association is launching its first ever geothermal group buy program, Geothermal Urbana-Champaign!

If you have an unsuitable site for solar or already have solar but want to continue reducing your carbon footprint and gain even greater energy independence, sign up to receive updates about this program’s launch date and first Geothermal Power Hour.

SIGN UP

Solar Urbana-Champaign Participant Testimonials

Ready to schedule a site assessment or wanting to receive important program updates? Fill out this short form to either request a free, no obligation site assessment with StraightUp Solar, receive important program updates directly to your inbox, or both.

SCHEDULE/RECEIVE UPDATES

Need more information about this program? Learn about the MREA’s history of facilitating these programs, the success this program has previously experienced, and a biography for this program’s installer, StraightUp Solar, on our About page.

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Want to see more solar in the Urbana-Champaign area? Help us get the word out about the Solar Urbana-Champaign program! Check out our media kit for easily shareable social media and email language and graphics. Thanks for helping grow solar!

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One Program, Big Impact

2020 marks the fifth year for the Solar Urbana-Champaign program. Since 2016, the environmental impact has been huge. Each year, the PV systems installed through this program will singlehandedly avoid greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 4,190,413 lbs. of CO2. So, thank you to you for making this program successful year after year and for helping to keep our part of the state beautiful, clean, and healthy.

Since 2016:

1,292 people attended Solar Power Hours

242 properties added solar

2,094 kilowatts of solar have been installed

Every year, that’s like avoiding:

4,716,474 miles driven by the average passenger vehicle

2,094,354 lbs. of coal burned

OR like 80,876 trash bags recycled rather than landfilled

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