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Solar power is the peoples power —Alden Hathaway



After he talked about
expanding the Wiregrass Solar plant by another megawatt,
Alden Hathaway of Sterling Planet said this:

Solar power is the peoples power.

Whether you’re talking about grid tied power here in America tied to the wire,
or solar in the rural countryside of Uganda,
it’s immediately available and accessible in all sizes.
So I can use it to power a cell phone, charge a laptop,
put light in a school, or pump water in a hospital.
Solar is immediately available to do that, without massive
which is a barrier to development in much of the developing world.

And to development in south Georgia, for that matter.
So we can

leapfrog that barrier with solar.

Here’s

the video:




Solar power is the peoples power –Alden Hathaway

Commissioning Ceremony,

Wiregrass Solar, Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority (VLCIA),

Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 12 May 2011.

Videos by John S. Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.

-jsq

Expanding Wiregrass Solar —Alden Hathaway of Sterling Planet



Alden Hathaway of Sterling Planet said he hopes to expand the Wiregrass
Solar array in Valdosta to an additional megawatt, taking it from being
one of the largest in Georgia to one of the largest in the southeast.
This is the man
Sterling Planet Chairman Sonny Murphy singled out for praise.
This is the expansion project

Sonny Murphy promoted in the Sterling Planet press release.
Alden Hathaway knows what needs to be done, and
Pete Marte and Hannah Solar stand ready to do it.

Alden Hathaway also talked about how solar helps load distribution
on the electric
grid, lowering electric rates for everybody.
He remarked that once power companies realized that, they’d be for solar.
More on that later.

But meanwhile, let’s ask Mayor Fretti and Commissioner Crawford Powell

when they’re going to do this:

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