American Friends in solar drive

Earth Quaker Action Team focus on solar energy campaign

The Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT) in America hopes to encourage a Pennsylvania utility firm to source twenty per cent of the electricity it sells from local solar panels by 2025.

EQAT is working with interfaith network Philadelphians Organized to Witness, Empower and Rebuild (POWER) to persuade PECO (formerly known as Philadelphia Electric Company) to ‘dramatically increase the purchase of local rooftop solar power’ by installing solar panels first in communities hard hit by unemployment.

The Quaker environmental group hopes that the company will ‘prioritise installation by local workers’ in areas of high unemployment and that this will help create local jobs as well as address climate change.

Over the past year EQAT and POWER have met with PECO executives and led a dozen demonstrations outside the PECO building in Philadelphia. The action is now spreading into neighbouring regions. 

The latest demonstration took place earlier this month when twenty Friends protested outside a PECO substation in Upper Darby, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.

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