Entries for Energizing Rural Communities Prize

Provides technical assistance, community education, and planning to prepare 5 Justice40 communities to initiate up to 15 solar projects.

“We want Philadelphia to become “a model clean energy rural city” where everyone takes a pledge to create it!”

The first grassroots community energy cooperatives in Hawaiʻi are vying for progress in a top-down industry. We are bringing the toolbox.

Our model creates a resilience hub in a Justice40 community, adding staged renewable energy projects to owned properties, starting with PV

Collaborating with churches & local markets, we provide energy-efficient solutions to rural communities through roof coating services.

Clean energy project to design, build, and showcase a Solar Thermal Energy microgrid in rural Idaho Springs.

Provide Sunshine Community Health Center with a solar + storage microgrid that is a reliable source of clean energy for rural Willow, AK

CE&P & ModZe teams are partnering to develop a rural renewable energy and transportation showcase to provide power and jobs in Heber, CA.

Agrivoltaic project development, workforce training, and education solutions for renewable energy generation, coexisting with agriculture

Reconfigured ethanol plant to advanced anaerobic digester to sustainably supply local energy needs and income for a small rural community.

Battery systems that are recharged by clean energy harvesting technology such as solar and wind. These batteries can be used by families.

The goal is to provide outreach and solutions to reduce energy by 50% with home improvement and energy appliances.

We will create an interactive network of connectors to energy ownership models, including microgrid communities serving Justice40 areas.

A net-zero farm with multiple renewable energy sources achieving local community energy needs while establishing regional best practices.

A cellular/wifi tower that produces solar & wind energy to maximize the day/night energy generation for delivering offgrid rural broadband.

We plan to energize rural communities by using animal waste to generate hydrogen useful for transportation.