By Jim Wylie & Paula Kline, The Sylvanian, Winter 2019 Southeastern PA Sierra Club Newsletter, December 13, 2019

On October 19, 2019, Ready for 100/Chester County hosted a tour on the National Solar Tour. We visited 35 sites, covering the better part of the whole county, and welcomed over 200 participants at installed and operation examples of:

•  Rooftop residential solar systems
•  Battery storage systems
• Large commercial solar operations – including a 1.1 MW array at a mushroom farm
• Green roofs
• Ground-source heat pumps
• Air-source heat pumps (owner installed)
• Net-zero, passive solar homes
• Solar powered robotic lawnmowers
• Renewable gas producing digesters
• Home energy efficiency measures – including an in-progress blower door test by PECO Home Energy Assessments program
• Electric vehicles and charging stations
• And much more

The Chester County Clean Energy Tour of 2019 was the culmination of a vision by Paula Kline, Ready For 100/Chester County team leader. Paula committed to joining the national solar tour in the spring of 2019 and spent eight months lining up volunteers (about 15), endorsements from elected officials and energy related organizations and sponsors (commercial) and co-sponsors (env orgs). A huge undertaking that ultimately included four kickoff sites with hosts and presenters and visual materials that can be used for future renewable energy related events….

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