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Aro Solar

Project 2014-04-01 18:50:54 +1300

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Collab Project with Smart Energy Challenge

Wellington City Council is teaming up with some of Wellington's brightest social entrepreneurs from Enspiral, Generation Zero and PledgeMe, to bring local Smart Energy projects to life. They've joined forces to find and support community-led projects designed to reduce energy use and increase clean energy in Wellington. Wellington City Council will match dollar for dollar the target amount of each successful project. This means that every dollar you pledge towards these projects will turn into two dollars! Let's get smart energy humming in Wellington.

We made it!!

Success! We reached our target. Whoo-hoo. And you can still Pledge right up until Saturday night at 11pm. Check out our 'Updates' tab for what the extra money will be used for.

What we're doing:

We're using the amazing medium of crowdfunding to bring the power of solar to the community!

Community centres like Aro Valley do great work in organising positive programmes and bringing people together but have limited funds and are burdened by expensive energy bills. Furthermore, people can often feel powerless to tackle the big environmental issues that we face today. We think Solar panels on community buildings provides an inclusive, viable and visible step towards local solutions - empowering people and catalysing change.

Solar energy is widely recognised as one of the easiest ways to produce your own renewable electricity (and avoid consuming energy produced by burning fossil fuels). However, the up front costs of solar energy mean that it's way beyond the budget of most of us.

If we band together we can create 100% clean renewable energy generation in our neighbourhoods – on the places that use electricity when the sun is shining - our community buildings, local businesses, you name it. Any power they generate and don’t use is fed back in to the grid, powering our homes too. Even better, the money they save on power bills can be fed back in to community projects.

We’re running a pilot – we've partnered with the Aro Valley Community Centre to crowd fund their transition to solar power. You can help these great people to drastically reduce their power bills, to be more self-reliant (and take a step towards resiliency), and to contribute clean renewable electricity to their community.

The Details

As part of this pilot we are putting a touchscreen display of the system on the Community Centre wall - so people can see, interactively, what the solar panels are saving the Community Centre day by day.

All the technicalities are sussed (thanks Right House!) - the costs of the PV panels, the installation on the Community Centre roof by 'RightHouse', the amount the Centre will save per year on their electricity bills. To cover all our costs we need to crowdfund $4,500 on Pledgeme. The really sweet deal is that Wellington City Council have committed to match fund our target $ for $ - meaning anything you pledge is effectively doubled.

We could help you to re-power your community centre or your local café next. But first we need your help with this one.

(Share and Support us on Facebook and Twitter ‘AroSolar’. See coverage of us in the media: The Wellingtonian 20 March 2014 )

Thanks

Our everlasting thanks and adoration to Boberg Films (Jason Boberg - Director, Samora O'Neill - Composor and Sean McGrath - Post production) as well as Stephen Templar - Logo Illustrator, Wellington City Council and the Smart Energy Challenge team (including support from Enspiral, Generation Zero and Pledge Me, and corporate supporters Deloitte, Kiwibank, and NZ Post), to Right House and the Aro Valley Community Council, to all the performers who gave generously of their time and talent to play on the Sun Stage at the Aro Fair - the Jon Lemmon Band, the Wend, Wet Wings, Djangle, and Kate Benge). A special mention also goes to the children from the Aro Valley Preschool who gamely participated in the filming of the video - thank you to Elina, Sylvia, Sashank, Sashwat, Dante and Krish. You guys were great. Thank you also to the parents of these children for giving permission for them to be involved! Last but never least, a huge thank you to all friends and family who have supported us on the journey so far. We're looking forward to the rest of it!

Comments

Updates 2

Success!!! :D (But it's still ok to Pledge)

07/05/2014 at 6:46 PM

Wow! What a wonderful Wednesday!

We reached our target - Success! And people can keep on pledging for the next 3 days. Any extra money we make will go towards:

A. Making sure the interactive display and thank you board are as professional looking as possible.

B. A Business Plan for rolling out community funded solar power across New Zealand.

C. Some thank you presents to all the amazing people who have donated their time and resources (for free) to making this project happen.

D. Thhhheee......(wait for it....) PARTY! Date tbc.

Our warmest and most heartfelt thanks to everyone who's donated so far; and everyone still to donate from now untill Saturday 11pm.

Louise, Ollie and Miranda

6 Days to go for Aro Solar - Ready: Set: GO!

23/04/2014 at 11:12 AM

Kia ora Aro Solar whanau!

It's the last week for Aro Solar on Pledgeme. We have $1208 left to raise over the next 6 days.

We are SO CLOSE to reaching the target, but need a little help to take the last few steps to make it to the finish line....

If each our Amazing Followers (yes that's you - you wonderful people!) shares our video to 3 freinds and they pledge $20 this week, we will hit our target and all your  good wishes and pledges will go ahead next week. 

So spread the word, share the video and together we can make this great idea a reality. Then every time you walk past the Aro Vally Community Centre and see the sun shining on those glitzy solar panels you can feel that warm fuzzy feeling that you made it happen. :D

One week to go - HERE WE GO!!

 

 

Arohanui,

Louise, Ollie and Miranda

    Pledgers 118

    Anonymous pledger
    10/05/2014 at 9:32pm
    Sonia Groes-Petrie
    10/05/2014 at 10:36am
    Anonymous pledger
    09/05/2014 at 10:06am
    Juliana Jones
    09/05/2014 at 9:11am
    Renata
    09/05/2014 at 8:17am
    Catherine Yates
    08/05/2014 at 9:42pm
    Robyn Thomson Davidson
    08/05/2014 at 8:10pm
    Jacob Smythe
    08/05/2014 at 3:35pm
    Anonymous pledger
    08/05/2014 at 2:49pm
    Ashlee
    08/05/2014 at 11:25am
    Matthew Bartlett
    08/05/2014 at 10:13am
    razvanvacar
    08/05/2014 at 9:37am
    Phoebe Hunt
    07/05/2014 at 10:21pm
    Edit McIntosh
    07/05/2014 at 10:18pm
    Anonymous pledger
    07/05/2014 at 9:46pm
    Phillip Barker
    07/05/2014 at 6:38pm
    Everybody Cool Lives Here
    07/05/2014 at 6:30pm
    Lisa McLaren
    07/05/2014 at 6:25pm
    Nina Atkinson
    07/05/2014 at 6:04pm
    Mui Leng Goh
    07/05/2014 at 5:59pm
    Fionn Peat
    07/05/2014 at 5:34pm
    Phili Ie
    07/05/2014 at 5:31pm
    Miranda, Oliver, Louise
    07/05/2014 at 4:26pm
    Patrick Arnold
    07/05/2014 at 4:09pm
    Genevieve Parkes
    07/05/2014 at 3:39pm
    Shirlene Vautier
    07/05/2014 at 12:03pm
    Freya
    07/05/2014 at 9:48am
    Anonymous pledger
    06/05/2014 at 10:22pm
    Jim Yates
    06/05/2014 at 10:06pm
    Rachel horwell
    06/05/2014 at 9:50pm

    Aro Solar

    Project 2014-04-01 18:50:54 +1300

    curated

    Collab Project with Smart Energy Challenge

    Wellington City Council is teaming up with some of Wellington's brightest social entrepreneurs from Enspiral, Generation Zero and PledgeMe, to bring local Smart Energy projects to life. They've joined forces to find and support community-led projects designed to reduce energy use and increase clean energy in Wellington. Wellington City Council will match dollar for dollar the target amount of each successful project. This means that every dollar you pledge towards these projects will turn into two dollars! Let's get smart energy humming in Wellington.

    We made it!!

    Success! We reached our target. Whoo-hoo. And you can still Pledge right up until Saturday night at 11pm. Check out our 'Updates' tab for what the extra money will be used for.

    What we're doing:

    We're using the amazing medium of crowdfunding to bring the power of solar to the community!

    Community centres like Aro Valley do great work in organising positive programmes and bringing people together but have limited funds and are burdened by expensive energy bills. Furthermore, people can often feel powerless to tackle the big environmental issues that we face today. We think Solar panels on community buildings provides an inclusive, viable and visible step towards local solutions - empowering people and catalysing change.

    Solar energy is widely recognised as one of the easiest ways to produce your own renewable electricity (and avoid consuming energy produced by burning fossil fuels). However, the up front costs of solar energy mean that it's way beyond the budget of most of us.

    If we band together we can create 100% clean renewable energy generation in our neighbourhoods – on the places that use electricity when the sun is shining - our community buildings, local businesses, you name it. Any power they generate and don’t use is fed back in to the grid, powering our homes too. Even better, the money they save on power bills can be fed back in to community projects.

    We’re running a pilot – we've partnered with the Aro Valley Community Centre to crowd fund their transition to solar power. You can help these great people to drastically reduce their power bills, to be more self-reliant (and take a step towards resiliency), and to contribute clean renewable electricity to their community.

    The Details

    As part of this pilot we are putting a touchscreen display of the system on the Community Centre wall - so people can see, interactively, what the solar panels are saving the Community Centre day by day.

    All the technicalities are sussed (thanks Right House!) - the costs of the PV panels, the installation on the Community Centre roof by 'RightHouse', the amount the Centre will save per year on their electricity bills. To cover all our costs we need to crowdfund $4,500 on Pledgeme. The really sweet deal is that Wellington City Council have committed to match fund our target $ for $ - meaning anything you pledge is effectively doubled.

    We could help you to re-power your community centre or your local café next. But first we need your help with this one.

    (Share and Support us on Facebook and Twitter ‘AroSolar’. See coverage of us in the media: The Wellingtonian 20 March 2014 )

    Thanks

    Our everlasting thanks and adoration to Boberg Films (Jason Boberg - Director, Samora O'Neill - Composor and Sean McGrath - Post production) as well as Stephen Templar - Logo Illustrator, Wellington City Council and the Smart Energy Challenge team (including support from Enspiral, Generation Zero and Pledge Me, and corporate supporters Deloitte, Kiwibank, and NZ Post), to Right House and the Aro Valley Community Council, to all the performers who gave generously of their time and talent to play on the Sun Stage at the Aro Fair - the Jon Lemmon Band, the Wend, Wet Wings, Djangle, and Kate Benge). A special mention also goes to the children from the Aro Valley Preschool who gamely participated in the filming of the video - thank you to Elina, Sylvia, Sashank, Sashwat, Dante and Krish. You guys were great. Thank you also to the parents of these children for giving permission for them to be involved! Last but never least, a huge thank you to all friends and family who have supported us on the journey so far. We're looking forward to the rest of it!

    Comments

    Success!!! :D (But it's still ok to Pledge)

    07/05/2014 at 6:46 PM

    Wow! What a wonderful Wednesday!

    We reached our target - Success! And people can keep on pledging for the next 3 days. Any extra money we make will go towards:

    A. Making sure the interactive display and thank you board are as professional looking as possible.

    B. A Business Plan for rolling out community funded solar power across New Zealand.

    C. Some thank you presents to all the amazing people who have donated their time and resources (for free) to making this project happen.

    D. Thhhheee......(wait for it....) PARTY! Date tbc.

    Our warmest and most heartfelt thanks to everyone who's donated so far; and everyone still to donate from now untill Saturday 11pm.

    Louise, Ollie and Miranda

    6 Days to go for Aro Solar - Ready: Set: GO!

    23/04/2014 at 11:12 AM

    Kia ora Aro Solar whanau!

    It's the last week for Aro Solar on Pledgeme. We have $1208 left to raise over the next 6 days.

    We are SO CLOSE to reaching the target, but need a little help to take the last few steps to make it to the finish line....

    If each our Amazing Followers (yes that's you - you wonderful people!) shares our video to 3 freinds and they pledge $20 this week, we will hit our target and all your  good wishes and pledges will go ahead next week. 

    So spread the word, share the video and together we can make this great idea a reality. Then every time you walk past the Aro Vally Community Centre and see the sun shining on those glitzy solar panels you can feel that warm fuzzy feeling that you made it happen. :D

    One week to go - HERE WE GO!!

     

     

    Arohanui,

    Louise, Ollie and Miranda

      Anonymous pledger
      10/05/2014 at 9:32pm
      Sonia Groes-Petrie
      10/05/2014 at 10:36am
      Anonymous pledger
      09/05/2014 at 10:06am
      Juliana Jones
      09/05/2014 at 9:11am
      Renata
      09/05/2014 at 8:17am
      Catherine Yates
      08/05/2014 at 9:42pm
      Robyn Thomson Davidson
      08/05/2014 at 8:10pm
      Jacob Smythe
      08/05/2014 at 3:35pm
      Anonymous pledger
      08/05/2014 at 2:49pm
      Ashlee
      08/05/2014 at 11:25am
      Matthew Bartlett
      08/05/2014 at 10:13am
      razvanvacar
      08/05/2014 at 9:37am
      Phoebe Hunt
      07/05/2014 at 10:21pm
      Edit McIntosh
      07/05/2014 at 10:18pm
      Anonymous pledger
      07/05/2014 at 9:46pm
      Phillip Barker
      07/05/2014 at 6:38pm
      Everybody Cool Lives Here
      07/05/2014 at 6:30pm
      Lisa McLaren
      07/05/2014 at 6:25pm
      Nina Atkinson
      07/05/2014 at 6:04pm
      Mui Leng Goh
      07/05/2014 at 5:59pm
      Fionn Peat
      07/05/2014 at 5:34pm
      Phili Ie
      07/05/2014 at 5:31pm
      Miranda, Oliver, Louise
      07/05/2014 at 4:26pm
      Patrick Arnold
      07/05/2014 at 4:09pm
      Genevieve Parkes
      07/05/2014 at 3:39pm
      Shirlene Vautier
      07/05/2014 at 12:03pm
      Freya
      07/05/2014 at 9:48am
      Anonymous pledger
      06/05/2014 at 10:22pm
      Jim Yates
      06/05/2014 at 10:06pm
      Rachel horwell
      06/05/2014 at 9:50pm
      This campaign was successful and got its funding on 10/05/2014 at 9:32 PM.