Google's huge solar buys help fund efficiency fixes… | Canary Media
In partnership with Sol Systems, the tech giant is using a slice of its clean-energy investments for repairs and efficiency upgrades in lower-income communities.
Cordell noted that many of the communities that the Sustainability Institute serves are leery of government promises of aid. “It only takes a couple of conversations with community-based partners to understand that, in these communities, a lot of things are promised, and few are delivered, historically,” he said. Andrew Williams, Sol Systems’ vice president of policy and corporate affairs, highlighted the importance of earning community buy-in to make the most of the locally focused impact investments that are becoming a more important part of many corporate clean-energy deals. “We as…
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