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What Solar Energy Policies Can Do for Low-Income Households
Apr 23, 2021
Jose Velasquez, left, is instructed by GRID Alternatives roof supervisor, Frank Ross, as they install solar panels on the roof of a home in Richmond, California, on May 22, 2015. GRID Alternatives is a nonprofit that specializes in installing no-cost rooftop solar systems to low-income families.
Photo by Michael Macor / San Francisco Chronicle / Getty Images
The Rev. Mariama White-Hammond is an outspoken activist for climate justice and the founding pastor of New Roots AME Church, a multiracial congregation in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood. She wants to give low-income households and diverse populations a genuine stake in the state’s race to build a clean-energy future. Massachusetts solar policy, she told me, “should be targeting the people for whom there is a double benef