{"id":195332,"date":"2024-08-28T10:26:22","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T15:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/solar-power-at-us-schools-surges-growing-fourfold-over-the-last-decade"},"modified":"2024-08-28T10:26:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T15:26:22","slug":"solar-power-at-us-schools-surges-growing-fourfold-over-the-last-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/solar-power-at-us-schools-surges-growing-fourfold-over-the-last-decade","title":{"rendered":"Solar power at US schools surges, growing fourfold over the last decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/solar-power-at-us-schools-surges-growing-fourfold-over-the-last-decade2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since 2014, solar capacity at K-12 schools has more than quadrupled across the US, according to a new report from clean energy nonprofit <a href=\"https:\/\/generation180.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Generation180<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cBrighter Future: A Study of Solar on K-12 Schools\u201d report highlights that over 6.2 million students \u2013 more than 1 in 9 \u2013 now attend schools powered by solar. In 2023 alone, more than 800 schools added solar panels, meaning that at least one school went solar every single day during the 2022\u201323 school year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe benefits of solar energy are now reaching a broad range of schools across the country, including those in under-resourced communities that stand to gain the most from the cost savings and educational opportunities that solar technology provides. We want all schools and communities, regardless of their size, geography, or wealth, to have access to affordable, clean energy,\u201d says Tish Tablan, the report\u2019s lead author and senior director of Generation180\u2019s Electrify Our Schools Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2014, solar capacity at K-12 schools has more than quadrupled across the US, according to a new report from clean energy nonprofit Generation180. The \u201cBrighter Future: A Study of Solar on K-12 Schools\u201d report highlights that over 6.2 million students \u2013 more than 1 in 9 \u2013 now attend schools powered by solar. In [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}