The city of Manitou Springs, Colorado, has agreed to purchase about 0.5 megawatts (MW) of electricity for its city-owned facilities from a solar array that will be built by SunShare, a solar supplier company. The company plans to start construction of the 2-MW plant in July 2014 and begin generating electricity in October that will be available for sale to Manitou Springs and other customers. Manitou Springs will pay 5.6¢ per kilowatt-hour for electricity generated. The agreement doesn't apply to residential or commercial customers in Manitou Springs, but they can apply individually to obtain their power through the solar garden. Salt River Project's Community Solar program will lower solar prices in May of 2014, giving customers the option to use solar power without having to install panels on their home or business. Customers can purchase a portion of Iberdrola Renewables-owned Copper Crossing Solar Ranch plant's output to be credited toward their monthly bills through the program. The residential price will decline to 9.9¢ per kilowatt-hour (kWh) from 11.25¢/kWh and the business price rate will decline from 9.9¢/kWh to 8.9¢/kWh. Customers pay a premium to participate and can be protected from rate increases up to 10 years. Google Inc. has partnered with MidAmerican Energy to supply up to 407 megawatts (MW) of electricity use from renewable energy sources for its data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Under the contract, MidAmerican will sell Google energy bundled with renewable energy certificates from the company's Wind VIII program. To date, Google's renewable energy agreements now comprise more than 1,000 MW and its investments constitute more than $1 billion in 15 renewable energy investments internationally. Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) plans to offer its customers more options to support solar power. The company is proposing a voluntary, community-based, solar partnership pilot for consideration before the Florida Public Service Commission (PSC). If the proposal is approved, FPL will install new solar-powered generating facilities in Florida communities, funded by voluntary contributions from FPL customers who choose to participate in the pilot program for $9 per month. FPL expects the construction of a total of 25 commercial-scale solar arrays representing an estimated capacity of 2.4 megawatts. Xcel Energy filed a proposal with the Colorado Public Utilities Commission for a Solar*Connect program that make power from large-scale PV solar facilities available to its Colorado customers. If approved, the electric utility would seek to buy 50 megawatts (MW) from a new, large-scale solar facility to which its customers could subscribe to meet all of their energy needs. The city of Worchester, Massachusetts, will be able to meet its clean energy resolution which requests that the city produces or purchases at least 20 percent of its electricity from clean and renewable energy sources. The city is expected to exceed this resolution by purchasing 25 percent from renewable energy sources through a contract with Renewable Choice Energy. Another partnership with South Jersey Energy Co., a New Jersey-based energy supplier, is expected to save the city about $600,000 on its electricity bills over the course of a three-year contract (if electricity market rates increase by 4.5% annually through 2018). At the time of signing of the contract the newly contracted rate was 7.7¢ per kilowatt-hour which was below the market price. IKEA, a retailer of home furnishing products, is making its first investment in a wind farm in the United States with the purchase of Hoopeston Wind in Hoopeston, Illinois. To date, the 98-megawatt (MW) wind farm is the largest single IKEA renewable energy investment internationally and is expected to generate up to 380 GWh of renewable energy each year. This investment is expected to make a substantive contribution to the company's goal to generate 100% as much renewable energy as the total energy it consumes by 2020. The wind farm is being constructed by Apex Clean Energy, an independent renewable energy company, and is expected to be operational by the first half of 2015. Steelcase Inc., a developer and manufacturer of furniture products and services for offices, is investing in a long-term renewable energy goal of 127,067 MWh, equivalent to 100% of its global electricity consumption. According to the U.S. EPA's Green Power Partnership, this investment in green power makes the company the 15th largest 100% renewable energy purchaser in the United States. Steelcase purchases renewable energy certificates from a portfolio that includes newer projects and renewable energy sources, such as wind and hydroelectric energy in North America and Europe. A New Hampshire law, enacted in July 2013, allows groups of people or businesses to band together and create a solar-power system as part of which they can be paid for excess electricity returned to the grid. Variations of the new law exist in several other states Community Renewable Energy Development. Previously, net metering has allowed New Hampshire residents to sell electricity back to their utility from small systems, defined as under 15 kilowatts (kW). At present, the new legal structure allows groups to share the financial return from systems up to 100 kW in peak output. NH Solar Garden is the first company in New Hampshire to offer group net metering. An initial 66-kW solar array has already been designed and construction is expected to begin in Spring of 2014. The only requirement to qualify for the service is that locations receiving power must be serviced by the same utility. Vote Solar will be partnering with Sustainable City University of New York to administer the NYSolar Smart-SunShares program. SunShares will help like-minded businesses, local governments, universities, and non-profits to combine the purchasing power of their employees and members toward going solar at home. The collective purchasing program is designed to encourage solar awareness, lower solar system costs, and support the state's solar industry. SunShares is designed to guide participants in the process of going solar together. As an extra incentive, those who choose to go solar through the program will be rewarded with a lower price. The ability to pursue a bulk solar purchase minimizes customer acquisition costs that result in cost savings for the industry that can be passed along to consumers. Hypertherm Inc., a New Hampshire-based designer and manufacturer of plasma, laser, and waterjet cutting systems, has partnered with Renewable Choice Energy, a green power provider and sustainability consultant, to purchase renewable energy equivalent to 100% of the company's electricity needs in the United States. To date, the company has acquired more than 18 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) of renewable energy certificates (RECs) from Renewable Choice for 2014. The purchase is managed by a Maine-based consulting firm, Competitive Energy Services. | 
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