An electric Chevy Volt charging in a Santa Barbara City lot. | Credit: Paul Wellman
The Santa Barbara Unified School District is embarking on a massive plan to install solar energy, battery storage, and electrical vehicle charging stations at school sites districtwide.
“This is a really important signal to the younger generation that we’re taking the climate crisis seriously,” said board president Laura Capps. “We are making an investment in a very bold vision of how to deal with the new climate reality — their future.”
The school board unanimously approved the first six steps of the renewable energy project at its last meeting in December. The steps involve the district partnering up with two environmental firms to complete a feasibility study by June 2020, beginning this month.
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