Power Local Green Jobs campaign resources

• Roadmap to 20% local solar by 2025
• A Plan for PECO webinar
• What's in PECO's DSP? webinar
• EQAT response to PECO's proposed Default Service Program

Unemployment and poverty in Philadelphia

• Black Work Matters: Green Jobs Report, POWER
• Philadelphia has highest rate of poverty and deep poverty of all the 10 largest US cities, Philadelphia Inquirer
• Unrelenting Poverty Leads To 'Desperation' In Philly Schools, NPR
• Map of Unemployment in Philadelphia
• 2014 Community Health Assessment, City of Philadelphia
• Impact Of Unemployment On Americans, Especially Black Americans

The US is experiencing a solar transformation

• Solar jobs jump 23% in PA in 2016, but state ranked 43rd in solar jobs per capita, Pittsburgh Business Times 
• There are now twice as many solar jobs as coal jobs in the US, Vox.com
• Seven Reasons Cheap Oil Can’t Stop Renewables Now, Tom Randall
• Solar Power for Everyone, Bill McKibben
• The Solutions Project 
• Shining Cities report, PennEnvironment

The solar transformation is an opportunity to support racial and economic equity

• Investing in Renewables Can Relieve Our Planet—While Reviving Our Economy, Anthony Giancatarino
• Climate change isn’t colorblind, The Guardian
• Income potential for low-income households from solar power, George Washington Univ. (If all U.S. low income households went solar, their combined annual budgets would increase between 17.9 Billion and 23.3 Billlion and create 138,000 jobs.)
• Pope Blames Markets for Environment’s Ills, Wall Street Journal
• Community Scale Solutions: Models, Strategies, and Racial Equity, Center for Social Inclusion

More on PECO and solar power

• Installing solar? Hookups not automatic, Philadelphia Inquirer
• PECO's counties are some of the best for solar in PA
• Philadelphia Solar Power Growth Lagging Other Cities, Philly Mag
• PECO’s state-mandated solar power requirements
• PECO’s service area
• Solar Power and the Electric Grid, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Energy Democracy -- 3 Case Studies, Center for Social Inclusion
• Models for financing solar in low-income communities, EQAT