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Dec 6, 2024

New Solar Panels at Historic Brooklyn Army Terminal to Power Sunset Park Community

Sunset Park Solar is a Community-led Collaboration between NYCEDC and Local Climate Justice Organization, UPROSE, with Developer Partner, Working Power

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Oct 30, 2024

Community Solar coming to two NOLA Public School Campuses

NOLA Public Schools (NOLA-PS), together with real estate developer Green Coast Enterprises (GCE) and community-scale clean energy developer, Working Power, announces a first of its kind community solar project to be built on two charter school campuses, which will provide electricity to the school communities at a discounted rate.

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Mar 8, 2024

Unlocking Clean Energy Incentives for Underserved Communities

Working Power is purpose-built to develop and finance clean energy projects with frontline communities at the scale, scope, and speed of the challenge.

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Jan 30, 2024

Opinion: What it will take to make clean energy affordable for everyone

“Nothing could be further from the truth,” says Bracken Hendricks, the board chair of Working Power, a national organization that marshals capital investment to fund renewable-energy projects with direct, local ownership by Black-owned businesses, labor unions and disadvantaged communities.

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Dec 13, 2023

DC PACE Program Hits Milestone with $6.1 Million Deal, Surpassing $100 Million in Total Loans Facilitated

“DC PACE has grown through public private partnership from its initial kernel as a pioneering policy, to become a fully realized financial product that’s transforming the built environment of our Nation’s capital,” stated Bracken Hendricks, Co- Founder and Managing Partner of Urban Ingenuity.

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Jun 29, 2023

The Dividends of Community-Owned Solar

The Rockefeller Foundation. The Dividends of Community-Owned Solar - The Rockefeller Foundation On Longhaul Farm in Garrison, New York, Jason Angell and Jocelyn Apicello believe countering global warming is urgent—but also not enough. They are at the forefront of a movement to promote community-owned solar power.

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May 17, 2023

Microgrid Knowledge Names Greater Good Award Winners at Microgrid 2023

The highest recognition went to the Adjuntas microgrid. “This is not simply a microgrid project; this is a new economic model and community building at its finest,” said Patrice Calise, an award judge.

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Apr 20, 2023

In DC, President Biden's administration unveils $8 billion plan to accelerate solar energy

We are thrilled that US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, White House Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi, EPA Deputy Administrator Janet McCabe, and project partners toured the Brentwood Reservoir Community Solar project in the lead-up to Earth Day.

Apr 20, 2023

US solar projects: Communities band together to share energy

Working Power is featured in this Earth Day story highlighting the DC Water Brentwood Reservoir community solar project. Expanding access to clean energy leads to economic development and impacts real people's lives.