By rootid
On a Tuesday evening in the spring of 2018 in Washington, DC, an energized group of District residents gathered to select the installer for the first solar co-op to be established with a grant award by Solar for All, a program of the District of Columbia’s Department of Energy and Environment (DOEE). For some, this … Continued
By rootid
In Southern California, where solar installation is a thriving economic engine, the Mesa Grande Band of Mission Indians took advantage of a state low-income solar program to build a tribally owned solar company that will create opportunity for tribal members for years to come. In 2014, two individual Mesa Grande members had rooftop solar installed … Continued
By rootid
Pearl Verre is a retired senior living on a fixed income in Palm Desert, California, a region that regularly experiences summer temperatures in the 100s. Paying energy bills in the summertime was once a huge burden, but after she got solar installed on her home, her monthly electricity bills dropped to pennies. Mrs. Verre’s was … Continued
By rootid
Job opportunities on the Bishop Paiute Reservation are slim – aside from a small casino, there isn’t much industry in this tourist pass-through town on the eastern side of California’s southern Sierra Nevada mountains. Joseph Lent, like many tribal members, held odd jobs in the construction trade but struggled to find steady work. Then in … Continued
