We are at a crucial point. We need to stop emitting way too much carbon to give us some chance at a pleasant future for all of humanity.
One way to do this is to replace electricity from carbon-spewing plants with electricity from renewable sources such as solar. Pennsylvania doesn’t have laws in place like they do in Maryland and other states to allow people who don’t have an ideal setting at home for their own solar panels to join together and reap the benefits of a community solar project.
If Pennsylvania citizens want to have clean energy, they can go to papowerswitch.com and select a supplier who produces power using renewable energy. A problem doing this for many people is that, in many cases, it costs more than the rates from the supplier using fossil fuels.
In Maryland, people who join a community solar project get a 10% discount. There is legislation in Pennsylvania now being considered to do something similar. I would urge everyone to contact their state representative and state senator asking to move forward on this.
Gene Hunter
Forks Township
