SunPower addresses marginalized communities and solar power with its ambitious 25×25 program making renewable energy more accessible for underserved communities. So what is the 25×25 program? It is an ambitious and aspiring move with positive benefits. Here’s more:
SunPower has a plan to change the face of solar power by 2025 since the solar energy industry has a tremendous amount to offer, even beyond green energy, SunPower will implement the following:
- Have a workforce of 40% women, 25% African American, and Latin workers with specialized focus placed on installation team development on a national basis.
- Expand Renewable Energy Access to marginalized communities with the development of no-interest loans and other options to address the 25% of SunPower’s customer base in marginalized communities.
- Improving industry equity by partnering with businesses owned by women and people of color. Their aim is a contractor base where 25 percent of the businesses they contract with are women and/or people of color.
Solar Energy is More than Clean Energy
Many people understand the positive benefits of going solar. As a source of clean energy, using solar energy is the key to cleaning the air of greenhouse gasses.
It is also one of the more affordable sources of energy, which means people from all income levels can and should participate.
That fact is important, and it represents part of what SunPower aspired to accomplish by 2025. By creating interest-free loans for famines that are traditionally unable to go solar is big.
Energy is one of the highest annual expenses for households. Replacing that annual cost with a system that can provide energy for 25 years is a massive step in the right direction for marginalized communities.
Solar, however, is more than all these benefits. It is an industry where jobs are expanding and where the pay is good. By committing to work with women and people of color both in terms of business contracting and personal installation teams, is also considerable.
It brings into these communities hope, sustainable income, and progress. Those are each impressive on their own, but when combined, they uplift and equalize opportunities in an industry that is itself reaching new heights.
SunPower aims to implement the 25×25 program by 2025, and that timescale is very ambitious. So is the growth of solar across the nation given to this ambitious plan, a sustainable factor that addresses accessible clean energy for marginalized communities.
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