Enhance Oakland’s existing solar opportunity assessment tool into an easily accessible, user friendly and non-proprietary aid that shows businesses and residents how a solar power project will work on their own roof, and subsequently increases their confidence as they negotiate with prospective contractors.  The Solar Oakland Initiative also aims to create an enduring outreach infrastructure to encourage solar power installation in Oakland by building on the 6 year-old East Bay Energy Watch partnership that Oakland shares with the City of Berkeley and by expanding the door-to-door outreach team that Berkeley has created under their 2007 Solar America grant.  The City of Oakland and UC Berkeley have team to apply for funding for this from the Department of Energy.

Champions: City of Oakland; UC Berkeley