Main Street has agreed to sell 2.8 megawatts of renewable power to the city of Denver, Denver Public Schools, the state Department of Corrections and the Pueblo County government.
The power the company is providing is less expensive than conventional electricity, so the government groups with which it's contracting will save money. But Main Street is providing another benefit to going solar: Some of the firm's solar arrays are going up in economically disadvantaged areas. The idea, company chief executive Amory Host said to the Post, is to help provide green jobs to low-income Coloradans.
"A goal is job creation, and we are working with the Denver economic-development office," he noted.
Colorado has one of the nation's most ambitious renewable portfolio standards targets: It hopes to generate a third of its energy renewably by 2020. Projects like Main Street's will help the state achieve that goal - and they may create jobs in the process.
