(KCPW News) Salt Lake City is partnering with five other Wasatch Front cities and counties to launch the “Wasatch Solar Challenge” after receiving a $400,000 Department of Energy grant aimed at reducing the cost of developing solar energy. Mayor Ralph Becker says it’s a chance for communities to share information on providing the right incentives to use solar energy.

“And providing a common system for people who want to come in and get city permits for solar,” he says. “This is really a good opportunity for local governments, thanks to a federal grant, to come together at the grassroots level and help provide a framework so that we can have more renewable energy use, and solar in particular, as a mainstream part of our community’s energy source.

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