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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Per your comment/request; the date of the Interconnection of the two FUUSM buildings as 8/4/17, the date of the expansion was 12/8/17</p>
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<div>Dave<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 23, 2018 1:39 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> green@fuusm.org<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Green] Faithify Application</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Green Sanctuary Folks:<br>
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Following is the first part of our solar matching application to Faithify. Notice my question about a video--if we don't have a short video, can we produce one --fairly quickly? There are two photos (the roof with solar panels and the RE building) which
did not paste into this message.<br>
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Support Solar Power in Coal Country<br>
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Name: Solar Power in Appalachia<br>
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Project Owner: First Unitarian Universalist Society of Marietta (OH); contact person -Ms. Dawn Hewitt, Chairperson, Green Sanctuary Committee<br>
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Region: Southeast Ohio & West Virginia (Appalachia); project activities to take place in Marietta, OH
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Amount Requested: $2,000 <br>
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Category: Environmental <br>
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Short Description: Help us extend solar power from our already-acquired solar panels on our sanctuary building to our antiquated, leaky religious education building.<br>
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Video (URL):<br>
(Do we have a short video that we can link to the application?)<br>
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The First Unitarian Universalist Society of Marietta (FUUSM), a UUA-approved Green Sanctuary congregation, intends to expand and diversify its solar energy project. FUUSM launched its solar energy project with the installation of its first array of solar
panels in October 2016 on the roof of the sanctuary building on the corner of Third and Putnam Streets in Marietta, Ohio.
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The RE building, the roof of which cannot accommodate solar panels, is estimated to be over 130 years old, and its aging structure is not well suited to energy efficiency for its current electrically based heating and air-conditioning system. At this
point FUUSM would like to invest in efforts to make this historic building more energy efficient through the installation of wall insulation, double-pane windows, and a new electrical HVAC system for climate control.<br>
To that end an anonymous donor has offered $10,000 as a dollar-for-dollar matching challenge grant. Approximately two thirds of the match already has been collected from other donors and through fund-raising activities by the congregation's Green Sanctuary
Committee. FUUSM is seeking donations from Faithify donors and from people and organizations who support renewable energy in the greater Mid-Ohio Valley to complete this match. The anonymous donor set a deadline of April 22, 2018—Earth Day—to complete fund
raising for this matching grant. <br>
FUUSM is the first religious organization in the Mid-Ohio Valley to install solar panels and to utilize solar energy as its main source of electricity for its house of worship. Through its efforts of introducing renewable energy FUUSM is decreasing
the carbon footprint of the city and serving as a model of responsible stewardship of the environment for the wider community. Because the solar array is “on the grid,” excess electricity generated on sunny days is sent into the system for use by other consumers.
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The solar array was acquired by Golden Rule Associates LLC, an entity established by FUUSM member David Ballantyne; the reason for this method of acquisition is that as a private organization, Golden Rule is eligible for a 30 percent federal tax benefit
for renewable energy infrastructure that a non-profit entity such as FUUSM is not.<br>
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--<br>
George Banziger<br>
202 Lawton Road<br>
Marietta, OH 45750-1111<br>
740-434-5685<br>
cell: 740-434-3354<br>
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