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Finalist Evaluation
Judges'' comments
SUBJECT: Climate CoLab Judging Results
Proposal: Solar Somerville - Some Assembly Required
Thank you for participating in the 2015 Climate CoLab Atypical Ideas for Carbon Neutrality contest, and for the time you spent in creating and revising your entry.
The Judges have strongly considered your proposal in this second round of evaluation, and have chosen to not advance it as a Finalist for this contest.
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While your proposal is intriguing, it is an issue that many other public and private organizations are already working on. We also have concerns--and would have wanted to see suggestions on--code compliance and grid connectivity. We hope plug-and-play solar technology comes to the market, and we will eagerly look to facilitate its adoption in Somerville.
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2015 Climate CoLab Judges
Semi-Finalist Evaluation
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Judges'' comments
SUBJECT: Your proposal has been selected as a Semi-Finalist!
Congratulations! Your proposal, "Solar Somerville - Some Assembly Required" in the Atypical Ideas for Carbon Neutrality contest, has been selected to advance to the Semi-Finalists round.
You will be able to revise your proposal and add new collaborators if you wish, from July 1st until July 16, 2015 at 23:59pm Eastern Time.
Judges' feedback are posted under the "Evaluation" tab of your proposal. Please incorporate this feedback in your revisions, or your proposal may not be advanced to the Finalists round. We ask you to also summarize the changes that you made in the comment section of the Evaluation tab.
At the revision deadline listed below, your proposal will be locked and considered in final form. The Judges will undergo another round of evaluation to ensure that Semi-Finalist proposals have addressed the feedback given, and select which proposals will continue to the Finalists round. Finalists are eligible for the contest’s Judges Choice award, as well as for public voting to select the contest’s Popular Choice award.
Thank you for your great work and again, congratulations!
2015 Climate CoLab Judges
This is an interesting idea--expanding a traditional solarize campaign to use more community involvement.
I like the Do-It-Yourself thinking, but consider putting your energies into an area that requires little technical expertise but still costs solar firms a bundle: gathering clients! It's true that labor costs now outweigh the cost of solar equipment; however, the danger of installations on triple deckers (e.g. how to get the panels up there, properly ballasted, and connected to wiring in the building). I can see the attorneys sharpening their pencils now. What if the city were to vet a small handful of solar installers and instead of building installation kits, you rounded up neighborhoods full of triple deckers to be assessed? As an example, review the Solarize program at the Mass Clean Energy Center.
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