Partners

Recology is the largest 100% employee-owned company in the resource recovery industry. The local subsidiary, Recology Ashland, provides waste collection and recycling services to residents and businesses in Ashland, Talent and southern Jackson County. Recology owns the property on which the solar array will be developed and will provide the documentation necessary to approve and facilitate construction activities (letter of support, permission for property access, option to lease, etc.). Recology is also happy to assist with outreach and community engagement as needed. Recology hosts a large rooftop solar system at the company’s transfer station in San Francisco, CA. When installed in late 2018, it was the largest privately-held solar array in the City and County of San Francisco. Recology is also actively exploring other large-format solar systems at various operations throughout Oregon and California.

Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) is honored to host Solarize Rogue’s solar array on the roof of the OSF Production Building in Talent.  This installation represents an important step in OSF’s ongoing efforts to lead on sustainability and renewable energy projects throughout the Rogue Valley.  The electricity generated by this array will be entirely available for community use, which we are thrilled to help make possible.  Founded in 1935, OSF has grown to a nationally renowned organization that presents an eight-month season of plays that include works by Shakespeare as well as a mix of classics, musicals, and world-premiere plays and musicals. The Festival draws attendance of over 400,000 to more than 800 performances annually and employs 400 to 600 theatre professionals, and the digital streaming performances and programming on our streaming platform O!, are experienced by viewers around the world.  OSF invites and welcomes everyone, and believes the inclusion of diverse people, ideas, cultures, and traditions enriches both our insights into the work we present onstage and our relationships with each other. OSF is committed to equity and diversity in all areas of our work and in our audiences.  Learn more here.

Sustainable NorthWest brings entrepreneurial solutions to natural resources challenges to keep lands healthy and provide economic and community benefits. We believe a healthy economy, environment, and community are indivisible, and that all are strengthened by wise partnerships, policies, and investments.

The Rogue Climate mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change, including low-income, rural, youth, seniors, and communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs, and a healthy environment.  We do so through leadership development, political education, fostering conversations, and campaigns for policies that benefit our communities over the special interests of the largest corporations.

Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF) is an entrepreneurial nonprofit focused on equitable environmental solutions at the intersection of renewable energy and clean water. Our work is rooted in strong partnerships and collaboration with other nonprofits, tribes, communities, businesses, utilities, school districts, and government entities. We seek to understand the needs of the communities and partners we work with and develop innovative energy solutions that deliver measurable economic benefits to those most impacted by economic inequity and environmental harms.

Energy Trust of Oregon is an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to helping utility customers benefit from saving energy and generating renewable power. Our services, cash incentives and energy solutions have helped participating customers of Portland General Electric, Pacific Power, NW Natural, Cascade Natural Gas and Avista save on energy bills. Our work helps keep energy costs as low as possible, creates jobs and builds a sustainable energy future.

National Community Solar Partnership (NCSP):  Solarize Rogue received no-cost technical assistance from the Department of Energy’s NCSP to support the development of our first Community Solar project.  The NCSP is a coalition of community solar stakeholders working to give every American household access to affordable community solar by 2025.  Partners leverage peer networks and technical assistance resources to set goals and work to overcome persistent barriers to expanding community solar access in underserved communities.  To participate in the NCSP, register by visiting the Community Platform.

The Oregon Solar Energy Industries Association is a trade association founded in 1981 to promote clean, renewable, solar technologies. OSEIA members include businesses, non-profit groups, and other solar industry stakeholders.  OSEIA provides a unified and respected voice of the solar industry and focuses exclusively on the solar value chain; from workforce development to permitting, advocacy, policy, and regulation for residential, commercial, community, and utility scale solar projects on the local, state and regional level.  OSEIA’s mission is to make solar energy a significant energy source and expand markets by strengthening the industry and developing a skilled and stable workforce.

Southern Oregon Climate Action Now (SOCAN) is an all-volunteer grassroots, 501(C)(3) non-profit organization of over 1,500 Southern Oregon residents and friends who care about global warming; we are concerned about its climate change consequences and the ocean acidification that both result from emissions of greenhouse gases. We have joined forces to address these problems.
The mission of Southern Oregon Climate Action Now (SOCAN) is to promote awareness and understanding about the science, causes, and consequences of climate change. We work with individuals and organizations in Southern Oregon, statewide, nationally, and internationally to advocate for both personal and governmental actions that reduce the emissions and atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases.
We seek a reduction in the global atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration to 350 parts per million Carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e).

Oregon Clean Power Cooperative, founded in 2015, is the country’s only state-wide member-owned cooperative dedicated to community-based renewable energy. The Co-op has raised more than $1 million in community investment to build more than two dozen community-based solar projects in Oregon, for schools, nonprofits, churches and local governments. The Co-op’s pioneering Solar Harvest project, a 320 kW Community Solar project which is the country’s first dedicated agrivoltaics research project, starts construction in July 2022.