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On Friday, a coalition of nonprofits gathered at MANNA Food Bank in Mills River to give updates on a new program to bring solar-powered energy to disaster-impacted areas in western North Carolina. This is a new phase of an ongoing effort to help local communities get off grid power during storms.
This announcement comes after the Department of Environmental Quality invested $5 million in microgrid projects last August in partnership with renewable energy and economic development nonprofits. Partners include the Louisiana-based Footprint Project, and state and local organizations like Land of Sky Regional Council and the North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association…