Together we have reached an awesome milestone. We now have more than one million solar installations powering our country. A MILLION!
We now have 1 million solar installations powering the U.S. We are all #MillionSolarStrong!
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We are inviting everyone – the solar workers, entrepreneurs, families, schools, churches, communities, policy leaders, advocates, and so many others who have been part of this historic moment – to show that we are a #MillionSolarStrong.
- Join the Thunderclap, which will send a unified #MillionSolarStrong message from the social media channels of your choosing on May 3rd. This is a really cool and easy way to help build a massive wave of solar awareness online.
- Share your own solar strong story any time by posting photos, videos and messages of solar support with the #MillionSolarStrong hashtag. Our friends at SEIA even have some #MillionSolarStrong printable signs to take your solar selfies to the next level.
Those are just a couple ideas, but there’s no shortage of ways to celebrate the fact that we are now a #MillionSolarStrong. Write an op-ed for your local paper. Email your elected officials. Hold an event or party. Call mom. Spread the good solar word in any way that works for you!
This historic moment was made possible by the hard work of so many: early adopters, families, schools, churches, communities, policy leaders, advocates, entrepreneurs, and solar workers. And so we’re teaming up with an equally mighty group of fellow solar supporters on this #MillionSolarStong. Partners like SEIA, Environment America, the Sierra Club, IREC, the Solar Foundation, GRID Alternatives, Organizing for America, the Climate Reality Project, SEPA and a host of business leaders will be participating in a week of media, social media and in-person events to show the strength and diversity of solar support. We are adding to that list all the time, so if you’re part of an organization that would like to be involved, email rosalind at votesolar.org.
This sunny milestone is worth celebrating for so many reasons. It means that solar is now a mainstream energy option. It means that affordable, reliable solar is a meaningful part of our energy mix … not tomorrow, not in the distant future, but today. It is a sign of all that’s possible with American innovation and ingenuity. It is creating hundreds of thousands of local jobs and new economic opportunity in all 50 states. It is building more resilient communities and putting consumers in charge of our own energy destiny. It is giving us cleaner air to breathe and hope in the fight against climate change. It is a really, really big deal.
And we are still just getting started. It took our country 40 years to install a million solar energy systems, but at the rate we’re growing it will take us only a couple more to reach our second million. Huge thanks again for being part of solar history. Let’s keep it up!