2011年6月19日 星期日

Passion for project

Elsa Johnson, a Navajo woman who lives in Scottsdale, is passionate about bringing solar power to the rural Navajo Reservation with her Plateau Solar Project.

Her non-profit, Iina Solutions, launched the project to take advantage of the money available from utilities and the federal government to help Navajo residents power their homes.

Johnson has spent countless hours bouncing along the rugged back roads of the reservation in search of people she could help.is the 'solar panel revolution' upon us?

She is partially driven by the irony that the Navajo Nation and Hopi Tribe are surrounded by coal-fired power plants that send their electricity to Phoenix, Tucson and other big cities but the people living on the reservations get little benefit beyond jobs at the coal mine and power plants.

"The Navajo and Hopi tribes supply all of the Southwest with cheap electricity, and yet my folks up here do not have electricity," she said. "That really eats at me. I am always amazed when a catastrophe happens elsewhere and everyone goes to that place and donates and everything. My heart goes out to those people because I know how hard that is. But you see right out here in our own backyard,We specialize in providing third party merchant account. a lot of these people will never have infrastructure."

To help the Curtis family, Iina Solutions tapped into money available from Salt River Project through a settlement with the Grand Canyon Trust environmental group connected to the expansion at the Springerville Generating Station coal-fired power plant. SRP agreed to pay $5 million for projects that reduce pollution and benefit the communities near the power plant.When the stone sits in the kidney stone,

The Grand Canyon Trust gets to help decide where the money is spent, and its officials want the money to compensate the people of the reservation who live with air pollution and transmission lines but don't benefit from the power.

The trust awarded Iina Solutions money to put solar on the Curtis home, hoping it would serve as a demonstration project for more homes to use the same style of power building.

Iina Solutions hopes to bring solar to at least 100 of the Navajo families living without power.How is TMJ pain treated?

Many of the people who have applied for solar through Johnson's project have had solar installed by other contractors and the systems have failed after a year or two, she said.

"In some places, we saw that they wired them with an extension cord that runs across the floor or ceiling," Johnson said. "Sometimes, they simply store the batteries in a box outside," where they fail because of the extreme cold and heat,We also offer customized chicken coop. she added.

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