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Jimmy Carter Makes a Stand for Solar
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of New York Times
Posted: February 19th, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/11/us/jimmy-carter-solar-ene...
The solar panels - 3,852 of them - shimmered above 10 acres of Jimmy Carters soil where peanuts and soybeans used to grow. 38 years after Mr. Carter installed solar panels at the White House, only to see them removed during Ronald Reagans administration, the former president is leasing part of his familys farmland for [the] project. It is, Mr. Carter and energy experts said, a small-scale effort that could hold lessons for other pockets of pastoral America in an age of climate change and political rancor. I hope that well see a realization on the part of the new administration that one of the best ways to provide new jobs - good-paying and productive and innovative jobs - is through the search for renewable sources of energy, Mr. Carter, 92, said in an interview. Although Mr. Carter, now decades removed from the night in February 1977 when he donned a cardigan sweater and spoke of the countrys energy problem, remains a keen student of energy policy, the solar project is also an extension of his legacy. The project on Mr. Carters land, which feeds into Georgia Powers grid and earns the former first family less than $7,000 annually, did not need to be large to serve much of Plains, population 683 or so. It began when a solar firm, SolAmerica, approached Mr. Carters grandson Jason Carter about the possibility of installing panels here. The former president, who was 11 when his boyhood home got running water after his father installed a windmill, did not need convincing and became deeply involved with the project, writing notes in the margins of the lease agreement and visiting the site regularly.
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