in three years [the solar panels] generated enough savings to transform the district’s $250,000 budget deficit into a $1.8 million surplus.”

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    The means of production benefiting the workers directly? How did this happen in USA??

    But sounds very nice

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    This is why decentralized energy gets suppressed by big corpo lobbies.

    Direct savings, local energy, is out of their hands.

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    I read “pray” and thought “USA thing”.

    But actually, this is really great and surprising.

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    This is perhaps the best thing I’ve seen today. More of this, please. Let’s convert all schools and municipalities and fund education and infrastructure beyond our wildest paltry (at this point) expectations.

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    Article is from October of 2020, I’d be interested in learning how/if things have changed since.