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NELA's 2 Megawatt Solar Challenge
How Northeast L.A. can become a center of solar energy.
“To pretend that the world is a garden is … a turning away from the woes that keep it from being one." —Rebecca Solnit. In my New Year’s column on ways to make Eagle Rock greener in 2011, I called for three megawatts of solar power to be installed in Eagle Rock: a megawatt at Occidental College, another among area businesses and institutions, plus a megawatt spread among homeowners. Let’s revise that to two megawatts over the next year and extend the geography to include our neighboring communities of Highland Park, Mt. Washington and Glassell Park. Here’s how we can do it: As part of an effort to stimulate interest in alternative energy production and to green the campus, Occidental College hopes to install a one-megawatt solar array on …
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Ajay Singh
9:22 am on Monday, June 13, 2011
Thanks, Jan—good to hear from you and to notice that, given the choice, you prefer Solar, with a capital S. I don't think I have heard a more compelling Solar story than yours. But please also tell us—or feel free to blog!—about your intriguing and unfinished story from the recent TERA fundraiser (at Bonnie's house) about something I could never have imagined regarding our solar miracle: The … more ›