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Solar Urbana-Champaign 2022 is coming soon!

Solar Urbana Champaign is a grassroots residential and commercial group purchasing program for solar. Offered by the Midwest Renewable Energy Association in partnership with local municipalities and organizations, homeowners and commercial property owners throughout Champaign, Piatt and Vermillion Counties may 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.

This year’s program will launch in late spring. Sign up below to get updates and join the program once it begins!

How to Participate

Start by attending one of our free, virtual Solar Power Hours. In this hour-long presentation you’ll learn the basics of solar, how it can save you money, and how the solar group buy program works. These events are being scheduled for our 2022 program: once finalized, you can view and register for any Solar Power Hour by clicking on the date of your choice below.

Afterward, you will be able to sign up for a free, no obligation site assessment and quote with this program’s competitively selected solar installer.

Our 2022 program is in the works: click the link below to sign up for updates on installer selection and our presentation schedule!

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Want more information about this program? Learn about the MREA’s history of facilitating these programs, and the success this program has previously experienced on our About page.

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Solar Urbana-Champaign Events

Grow Solar events are free and open to the public.

Stay tuned: this year’s Solar Power Hours are being scheduled! After two years of virtual presentations we are thrilled to be offering both virtual and in-person Power Hours this year. Sign up for updates above to be notified once the schedule is published.

Did you miss our Solar Power Hours?

You can still watch a recorded version to learn the basics of solar, its financial implications for your property, and how the Solar Urbana-Champaign program works. Check out our virtual resource packet for resources complimentary to this presentation. Then, get a free, no obligation site assessment from our competitively-selected installer, by filling out this short form. The deadline to participate in this program was October 31st, 2021. 

Help spread the word! The only way this program is successful is through community- led outreach. Please considering sharing with your networks because the more people who go solar through the program, the lower the price for all.

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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 New Prairie Solar, receive important program updates directly to your inbox, or both.

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.

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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

2021 marks the sixth 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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