For Kids Only Child Care Center


The Solar Project The opening of For Kids Only (FKO), in 1996, was the culmination of a dream and the beginning of a path to make a difference in our community. Over the past 15 years we have worked to have a positive affect on the children in our care. We stress the importance of reaching out. Our children have helped raise funds for the SPCA of Briarcliff (our neighbor), UNICEF, Habitat for Humanity and Riley Saper’s Scholorship Fund. We teach the importance of protecting the environment through conserving electricity and water as well as recycling and reusing. We believe that it essential for us to provide positive models for the children. That is the primary reason for the decision to install solar power at FKO. Green Hybrid Energy Systems (GHES) worked with us to develop a system that has the potential to reduce our electric costs by 60% and reduce the carbon footprint by 22,000 pounds per year. With subsidies from the State and Federal government, it became an affordable investment and we were on the path to fulfilling another dream. We hope to continue spreading our sunshine in the years ahead. Wendy Masserman, Executive Director
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We can set an example for our children to take care of our environment, and show them that we practice what we preach.	This project will provide all their electric power and will eventually allow them to feed excess power back to the utility.
Everyone pitched in and responded to their sense of responsibility to the community.	A local dealer offered us the use of their heavy equipment, which allowed us to unload the solar panels and get them up on the roof.
We will have panels on the wide expanse of the top floor roof, as well as on the awning on the south side of the building.	We will have ground-based solar tracking, which will allow the panels to follow the sun for maximum efficiency.