Solar and Battery Storage to Support Community Preparedness and Disaster Response

Slides: www.cleanegroup.org/wp-content/uploads/CEG-Webinar-1-15-25-Slides.pdf
An increase in severe weather events, combined with aging energy infrastructure, is resulting in more frequent and longer duration power outages. Low-income communities, communities of color, and medically vulnerable populations are especially vulnerable. Solar paired with battery storage (solar+storage) can provide emergency backup power support to the community service providers and first responders serving these communities.
This webinar focused on innovative applications of solar+storage to assist vulnerable communities in the event of an outage and emergency event. Footprint Project (www.footprintproject.org), a non-profit organization that deploys solar+storage to communities in crisis, will speak to their experience deploying mobile solar+storage systems to support critical facilities and first responders during, and after, an emergency event. Community Power South overviewed the Community Lighthouse initiative, a resilience effort to equip a network of congregations and community institutions across New Orleans with commercial-scale solar power and back-up battery capacity. This initiative was started by Together New Orleans (www.togethernola.org/home), a broad-based coalition of congregations and community-based organizations in the greater New Orleans area.
Panelists:
Marriele Mango, Project Director, Clean Energy Group (Moderator)
Joshua Cox, CEO, Community Power South
William Heegaard, Operations Director, Footprint Project