Powering Community Access to Clean Energy

If you’ve been by Zuanich Point Park lately, you may have noticed something new: solar panels now lining the roof of the Fisherman’s Pavilion.

They’re part of a growing community solar effort designed to make clean energy more accessible. Through this program, local residents don’t need to install panels on their own homes to benefit. Instead, they can opt in and receive credits on their energy bill. This is expanding access to renewable energy for renters, households without suitable rooftops, and anyone looking for a simpler path to participate.

Projects like this are about more than infrastructure: they’re about inclusion.

Behind the scenes, our team supported the effort by providing independent QA/QC oversight during construction. Rather than a one-time review at the end, the work focused on steady, milestone-based check-ins throughout the build, making sure installation stayed aligned with plans, safety practices were consistently followed, and the project was ready to perform as intended once complete.

That steady oversight helps ensure that what the community sees, a fully installed system, is backed by quality, reliability, and long-term performance.

The result is a project that does more than generate power. It creates an accessible way for people across the community to participate in clean energy, reduces barriers to entry, and turns a public space into a shared resource for sustainability.

As community solar continues to expand, projects like this play an important role in making clean energy more visible, more inclusive, and more connected to the places people already live and gather.

Read it in the news here: What's the Deal With: The solar panels on Fisherman's Pavilion? | Cascadia Daily News