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in three years [the solar panels] generated enough savings to transform the district’s $250,000 budget deficit into a $1.8 million surplus.”

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[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 37 points 1 month ago

The means of production benefiting the workers directly? How did this happen in USA??

But sounds very nice

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 11 points 1 month ago

In Arkansas of all places. Who’da thunk?

[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 20 points 1 month ago

This is why decentralized energy gets suppressed by big corpo lobbies.

Direct savings, local energy, is out of their hands.

[-] Downcount@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

I read "pray" and thought "USA thing".

But actually, this is really great and surprising.

[-] Infynis@midwest.social 8 points 1 month ago

Arkansas was also a bit of a giveaway

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 month ago

This is perhaps the best thing I've seen today. More of this, please. Let's convert all schools and municipalities and fund education and infrastructure beyond our wildest paltry (at this point) expectations.

[-] Jayjader@jlai.lu 2 points 1 month ago

Article is from October of 2020, I'd be interested in learning how/if things have changed since.

this post was submitted on 29 May 2024
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