Скачать или смотреть The New Local Climate Activism - Jigar Shah of the Energy Department

Jigar Shah, a successful solar solar-focused entrepreneur and communicator, now runs the Energy Department's Loan Program, which has hugely expanded capacity to help finance local clean-energy shifts thanks to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law of 2021, with even more resources coming under the Inflation Reduction Act.

Here's Jigar Shah's call to action for local clean-energy initiatives building national and global climate impact:

"We have thousands, actually tens of thousands, of people who are already active on these issues. When you think about what this takes, we have 19,500 organized cities and towns and communities in this country; 14,500 of them have a population that's less than 5,000. And so what this requires is a sustained effort at the local level. When the transit authority makes the decision to replace old diesel busses with something else, they need to choose electric busses and we have programs to pay for it. But if the transit agency doesn't apply for the program, it doesn't happen.

"And I can't force them to do it from the federal government. All I can do is say, here are all the resources. But someone in the local community can force them to make a decision that's in their own best financial interest. The same thing's true with the way in which school busses are done. Only 50 percent of streetlights in this country are LED. We can replace all the rest of the streetlights with LED lights. It's like an eight-month payback.

"For whatever reason, everyone's oh, it's a red or blue issue. It's not. Most of the police forces that have moved over to electric are in red districts. So what it takes is someone who actually is willing to spend a few extra hours every week to say, you know what, I want to make my community better. And the federal government's passed $1.2 trillion to support that. But we can't force it from the top down. That's not how our country works, right? It's got to be forced at the local level with resources that we provide to that changemaker and that muckraker."

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And the Energy Department Loan Program website:
https://www.energy.gov/lpo/inflation-...