“After Maria, we saw the vulnerability and the necessity to have an electric system that truly works.”
“It’s the worst thing that could happen to Puerto Rico,” said Massol Deyá of a potential solar tax.
Over the next six months, the organization distributed 14,000 lamps. And in the last six years, it has helped fund and install more than 350 solar energy systems on buildings across town, including in an assisted living facility, a grocery store, the local fire station and many homes in the poorest neighborhoods of Adjuntas. Casa Pueblo even built aIn 2018, Salt Lake City-based, which supports solar projects around the world, took notice of what was happening in Adjuntas.
By creating a microgrid with other local businesses on the grid, including a bakery, hardware store and pharmacy, Adjuntas could gain energy security during emergencies, all while starving the fossil fuel industry by unplugging those with the highest energy demands. That concern led Irizarry and the 13 other investors in the microgrid to form the Community Solar Energy Association of Adjuntas , a non-profit independent utility that reinvests in community solar projects, prioritizing homes of the most vulnerable Adjunteños. “We each have a commitment to the community,” said Irizarry., but the town’s solar-powered buildings were spared.
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