Ohio Cooperative Solar

Ohio Cooperative Solar (OCS) is an employee-owned, community-based energy company that will implement large-scale installations of solar panels on the roofs of the city’s biggest nonprofit health, education, and municipal buildings and performs year round residential weatherization services. OCS is located in the Glenville Enterprise Center.

 

OCS currently employs 14 people and as the company ramps up, it aims to employ approximately 50 workers. Within three years, OCS projects the total installed solar in Cleveland will be on the order of 3 MWh, making it one of the largest (if not the largest) concentrated installations in the Midwest. Ultimately, the goal is to develop a workforce capacity that will carry out solar installations throughout the state.

 

In 2009 and 2010, the ECDF made loans to OCS to support the company’s weatherization efforts and to finance the construction and installation of solar panel installations. The units are to be constructed at the Cleveland Clinic, Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals, and the City of Euclid. The loan from the ECDF will act as construction financing and pay for materials and working capital.