SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Students across Northern and Central California will have the
opportunity to bring clean, renewable energy to communities in Kenya
through Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s (PG&E) Solar
Suitcase Program.
PG&E has selected 19 high schools to participate in the second year of
the program and provided each school with more than $8,000 worth of
equipment and professional development training in partnership with the
nonprofit We Care Solar.
Sharing their commitment to environmental sustainability by developing
these local projects, students will build portable solar units and have
an opportunity to deliver the Solar Suitcases to students in Kenya.
Nearly 1,100 California students have been engaged in the program, and
the suitcases they built today light the living spaces of more than
2,400 Kenyan students.
“I love that PG&E’s Solar Suitcase Program combines education in clean
energy with fostering a spirit of community service. It’s about helping
students act locally and think globally,” said Helen Burt, PG&E's senior
vice president, External Affairs and Public Policy.
The We Share Solar Suitcase® is a portable photovoltaic
lighting system, powerful enough to illuminate a small room. PG&E is
supplying more than 100 Solar Suitcase units to the participating
schools, where students and teachers will be trained to use them by We
Care Solar and will learn the basic principles of producing clean energy.
“What I am truly looking forward to with the Solar Suitcase Program is
the opportunity to work with my peers on a project that provides a
solution to a problem that we are all passionate about in order to make
a difference beyond our own community,” said Christina To, a student at
Pinole Valley High School.
Students will then be invited to submit videos of their own local
sustainability projects. Winning schools will choose student and teacher
representatives to deliver suitcases to orphanages, schools and medical
clinics in Kenya with international nonprofit, The WE Charity.
Additional suitcases will be sent to energy-poor regions around the
world.
This unique global opportunity for local high school students adds a new
dimension to PG&E’s commitment to education and renewable energy.
The list of PG&E Solar Suitcase Program schools is below:
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North High School
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Bakersfield
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Delta Vista High School
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Byron
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Inspire School of Arts & Sciences
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Chico
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Buchanan High School
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Clovis
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Jefferson High School
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Daly City
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Madera South High School
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Madera
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Skyline High School
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Oakland
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Oakland Technical High School
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Oakland
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Sonoma Mountain & Carpe Diem High Schools
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Petaluma
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Pinole Valley High School
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Pinole
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Rio Americano High School
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Sacramento
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Lincoln High School
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San Francisco
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Independence High School
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San Jose
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Seaside High School
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Seaside
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Templeton High School
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Templeton
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Tracy High School
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Tracy
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Upper Lake High School
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Upper Lake
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Winters High School
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Winters
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To learn more about the PG&E Solar Suitcase Program, visit http://www.pge.com/solarsuitcase.
About PG&E
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Corporation (NYSE:PCG), is one of the largest combined natural gas
and electric utilities in the United States. Based in San Francisco,
with more than 20,000 employees, the company delivers some of the
nation’s cleanest energy to nearly 16 million people in Northern and
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