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TIL about a Arkansas school that turned solar savings into better teacher pay (energynews.us)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world to c/solarpunk@slrpnk.net

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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 38 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

But sounds very nice

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 12 points 4 months ago

In Arkansas of all places. Who’da thunk?

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 21 points 4 months 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 4 months ago (1 children)

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

But actually, this is really great and surprising.

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 8 points 4 months ago

Arkansas was also a bit of a giveaway

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 4 months 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 3 points 4 months ago

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