Community Cafe Bainbridge

In a podcast interview recorded on Earth Day (April 22, 2015), experts on financing and installing solar panels explain why there has never been a better time for homeowners or business owners to install solar panels on their rooftop. Our guests explain that you can both counteract climate change AND save money with a relatively quick payback period. In this interview, we meet Anders Hellum-Alexander, a representative from solar panel installation company A&R Solar (a-rsolar.com), and Shannon Ellis-Brock, chief operating officer from Puget Sound Cooperative Credit Union (psccu.org).  Our third guest is Kellie Stickney, the community engagement specialist from the City of Bainbridge Island. Our guests were on their way to the dedication of an array of newly installed rooftop solar panels at the City’s Waterfront Community Center, where Puget Sound Energy funded the project as an award for the Bainbridge community’s high rates of adoption of PSE’s "Green Power" Program. A&R Solar installed panels at Wat