Renewable Power Perspectives Q&A with Kristal Hansley, Founder & CEO of WeSolar, Inc.
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I was at a community conference with 50 Black ladies organizers who were not invested in the neighborhood solar movement. To be able to offer a product that will save our community up to 60% on their energy costs is transformative
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WeSolars objective is to bring under-resourced neighborhoods cost effective access to local neighborhood solar and to help business residential or commercial properties with energy effectiveness. When I first moved to Baltimore, the Community Solar Pilot Program was introduced and I wanted to ensure city locals were getting the same quantity of investment as the county. Renewable energy has traditionally been a middle class concern due to the fact that Black communities have had to live in survival mode, but Reverend Mason and Reverend Dewitt brought me into the circle and linked me with the people I needed to link with in order to make this partnership effective
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Kristal Hansley is the Founder & & CEO of WeSolar, Inc. and is the nations very first Black Woman CEO in the neighborhood solar market. Under her leadership, WeSolar is growing quickly, supplying customers across Maryland access to budget friendly solar energy, regardless of house type and assisting hard-working households reduce month-to-month expenditures
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What inspired you to begin your company?
I was at a neighborhood conference with 50 Black females organizers who were not invested in the neighborhood solar motion. I began showing how higher earnings neighborhoods and individuals in the residential areas were taking advantage of this and got a load of assistance. To be able to provide a product that will save our neighborhood up to 60% on their energy expenses is transformative
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Inform us about your company? (mission, partners, areas you run in, main consumers, etc.).
WeSolars objective is to bring under-resourced neighborhoods budget friendly access to local community solar and to help business properties with energy effectiveness. In Maryland, legislators passed legislation that specifies 50 percent of its electrical energy need to come from sustainable energy sources by 2030
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What obstacles do you deal with? Why?
To a neighborhood that is currently facing a lot of pressing difficulties, encouraging them that there is another one simply as important is extremely challenging. I remember attempting to discuss community solar to my buddies and the discussion quickly pivoting to housing. The fact of the matter is, institutional racism and injustice is bigger than we understand and it drowns our community. Where Black individuals are not being invested in, we are being asked to prioritize constantly for our survival
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Please share with us a recent company success story.
An extremely personal success story for me is cultivating a collaboration with Maryland United Baptist Missionary Convention, Inc. I matured in a baptist church in Brooklyn where my cousin was the pastor and my mommy was an organizer– neighborhood was sewn into my really being. When I first transferred to Baltimore, the Community Solar Pilot Program was introduced and I wished to make sure city citizens were receiving the very same quantity of financial investment as the county. It was the church that took me in, and the church that then supported my vision– bringing everything cycle. Eco-friendly energy has traditionally been a middle class issue due to the fact that Black neighborhoods have actually had to reside in survival mode, however Reverend Mason and Reverend Dewitt brought me into the circle and linked me with the people I required to get in touch with in order to make this partnership effective
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