Podcast appearances and mentions of anya schoolman

Seventeen years ago, two young boys from Washington, DC set a ball in motion that would spark a nationwide solar movement. What inspired them? Al Gore.Solar United Neighbors (SUN), a national nonprofit, began as a grassroots effort when two preteens, inspired by An Inconvenient Truth, rallied their neighbors to adopt solar energy. Their initial door-to-door campaign grew into a solar co-op, which has since evolved into SUN, has driven key policy changes across the USA and fosters a network of solar advocates that stretches coast-to-coast. In fact, their neighborhood-focused inkling of an idea has now facilitated over 10,000 residential solar projects, making localized, affordable solar accessible to communities everywhere and catalyzing the largest known community of solar owners we've found.In this episode, Anya Schoolman, Executive Director of Solar United Neighbors, shares how her son, Walter and his friend Diego's vision for neighborhood-wide solar purchasing planted the seed for a national movement. Expect to learn:What is the Solar for All program and how it is expanding solar access to underserved communities.How Solar United Neighbors expanded into a nationwide movement now representing one million solar homeowners.Why we can't decarbonize without distributed solarWho wins because of the organization's efforts in consumer protection, ensuring transparency in solar contracts.Listen in to hear how a local project transformed into a national effort driving clean, working toward affordable solar energy for all!If you want to connect with today's guest, you'll find links to his contact info in the show notes on the blog at https://mysuncast.com/suncast-episodes/.Our Platinum Presenting Sponsor for SunCast is CPS America!SunCast is proudly supported by Trina Solar.You can learn more about all the sponsors who help make this show free for you at www.mysuncast.com/sponsors.Remember, you can always find resources, learn more about today's guest and explore recommendations, book links, and more than 730 other founder stories and startup advice at www.mysuncast.com.Subscribe to Valence, our weekly LinkedIn Newsletter, and learn the elements of compelling storytelling: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/valence-content-that-connects-7145928995363049472/You can connect with me, Nico Johnson, on:Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/nicomeoLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickalusMentioned in this episode:CPS July 2024 V2

Will rooftop solar be the cornerstone of a modern clean energy system? We interview Anya Schoolman, executive director of Solar United Neighbors and learn how this growing organization is helping neighborhoods go solar around the country, and how this is transforming our energy system.ResourcesSolar United Neighbors websiteSolar resource guides, educational tools, and issuesAllegheny Solar Fest (mentioned in episode)

New Year, New Season! Solar advocacy through organizations like Solar United Neighbors (SUN) has been instrumental in creating legislative change and protecting the rights of solar users. Anya Schoolman, Executive Director of SUN joins us to kick of 2021 and Season 2 of the Solar Disruption Theory Podcast. Our discussion includes organization goals, advocacy resources, education around sustainable development, and how to make complex issues relevant to the community.Linkshttps://www.solarunitedneighbors.org/https://www.nationalsolartour.org/Blog - Federal tax credit for solar power extendedSEIA’s 100 Day AgendaThe Solar Disruption Theory would be nothing without our amazing guests. Want to join us on an episode? Drops us a line and let us know what you would like to talk about on the show. Include as much information as you would like! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Anya Schoolman, Executive Director, Solar United Neighbors Accessing Renewable Energy: Neighbors Going Solar Together, Anya has worked for decades on environmental projects and policy up and down the Western Hemisphere. This work has helped her grapple with the issue of sustainable development and how to make complex issues relevant to the community. Solar United Neighbors […]

In this episode, we are learning about a national development that could upend the rooftop solar industry and reduce the amount that rooftop systems, both residential and commercial, are compensated for their excess generated energy. We sit down with the head of Solar United Neighbors (SUN), Anya Schoolman, about how people can step up and stop this attack on solar rights. NCSEA's Daniel Brookshire also weighs in with the North Carolina perspective. To engage and stop the attack on solar, visit savesolar.org And to access resources and see NCSEA's full statement on racism in the US, please visit our blog at energync.org Presented by NC Sustainable Energy Association. Hosted and produced by Ben Stockdale.

The solar cooperative movement began with two teenagers going door to door in their neighborhood in Washington DC. Their work grew into a national organization helping neighbors around the country go solar together, and building a grassroots movement for clean energy for all. Solar United Neighbors works alongside community organizations, providing the technical expertise to simplify solar for property owners and the political savvy to overcome obstacles.  The League of Women Voters is SUN's main collaborator in Florida, where the two groups together have organized more than 50 solar cooperatives around the state.  We talk with Anya Schoolman, Director of Solar United Neighbors, Mary Dipboye of the Florida League of Women Voters, and Warren Clark of the St Johns County Solar Cooperative. 

Freeing Energy Podcast Host Sam Easterby talks with Anya Schoolman, the founder and Executive Director of Solar United Neighbors.  Listen and learn about SUN programs centered on energy rights, how those rights can be leveraged to save money, support clean energy, and fundamentally change our energy system at the community level.

Ellen Kamhi talks with Anya Schoolman, who has worked for decades on environmental projects and policy, and is Executive Director of Solar United Neighborhoods. Anya helped the passage of landmark solar legislation and regulation. In April 2014, the White House selected Anya as one of 10 White House Champions of Change for Solar Deployment for her groundbreaking work to deploy solar in the National Capital Region.

Ellen Kamhi talks with Anya Schoolman, who has worked for decades on environmental projects and policy, and is Executive Director of Solar United Neighborhoods. Anya helped the passage of landmark solar legislation and regulation. In April 2014, the White House selected Anya as one of 10 White House Champions of Change for Solar Deployment for her groundbreaking work to deploy solar in the National Capital Region.

How does a growing, national nonprofit organization help homeowners complete the circle between clean energy ownership and policy advocacy? ILSR's Energy Democracy Initiative director John Farrell talks with Anya Schoolman of Solar United Neighbors (SU...

How does a growing, national nonprofit organization help homeowners complete the circle between clean energy ownership and policy advocacy? ILSR’s Energy Democracy Initiative director John Farrell talks with Anya Schoolman of Solar United Neighbors (SUN) in this October 2018 recording about two major clean energy policies before the Washington, D.C., city council. SUN's solar co-op model has spread to 10 states, and builds the constituency for clean energy policy.… Read More

Show page available: http://www.ilsr.org/from-the-archive-anya-schoolman-executive-director-of-solar-united-neighbors-episode-55-of-local-energy-rules-podcast | How did one group of neighbors from Washington, D.C., band together to advance clean energy locally and then build a larger movement replicating their model elsewhere? In the latest episode from the Local Energy Rules podcast archive, John Farrell, Director of ILSR's Energy Democracy Initiative, revisits a 2013 interview with Anya Schoolman, the major force behind a unique, grassroots solar cooperative model that has since grown into Solar United Neighbors, now a national leader in distributed, cooperative solar. The two discuss effective ways to invest in solar energy and advocate for local policies to support distributed energy from the ground up—strategies as relevant in 2013 as they are today. | Listen to all of our Local Energy Rules podcast episodes at our site: https://ilsr.org/local-energy-rules-podcast-homepage | Don't forget to subscribe, share with your friends, leave a recommendation on our podcast feeds, and join the conversation online using the #LocalEnergyRules hashtag!

How did one group of neighbors from Washington, D.C., band together to advance clean energy locally and then build a larger movement replicating their model elsewhere? In the latest episode from the Local Energy Rules podcast archive, John Farrell, Director of ILSR’s Energy Democracy Initiative, revisits a 2013 interview with Anya Schoolman, the major force behind a unique, grassroots solar cooperative model that has since grown into Solar United Neighbors, now a national leader in distributed, cooperative solar. The two discuss effective ways to invest in solar energy and advocate for local policies to support distributed energy from the ground up—strategies as relevant in 2013 as they are today.… Read More

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/OTG-MAR3-2016F.mp3 More voices from the Maryland Coalition for Justice and Accountability speak out on police brutality and murders in the state. And, has the U.S. presidential race emboldened White supremacists? A discussion with Jon Jeter, journalist and author of "Flat Broke in the Free Market" and Andrew Batcher, an activist and organizer representing the Ad Hoc Anti Racist Coalition, which will be protesting on Saturday, March 5, beginning at 5pm at Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade center in DC as a White supremacist organization, the National Policy Institute, holds a conference there. Guests and voices: Anya Schoolman, pro-choice protesters at the Supreme Court, Lindy Bourne, Tulsi Gabbard, Chris Rock, No Boundaries Coalition, members of the Maryland Coalition for Justice and Accountability, including DezRock, minister of culture for Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle in Baltimore. Headlines: -Activists hope that the Exelon-Pepco takeover deal in DC is finally dead. -Hundreds of protesters rally in front of the Supreme Court while the court heard arguments on a controversial Texas abortion law. -Demonstrators plan rally for Saturday, March 5th at 5pm outside the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, to protest the National Policy Institute, a White Supremacist think tank, holding a meeting in a federal, tax-payer funded building. -Tulsi Gabbard, Democrat of Hawaii, quit as vice chair of the DNC, endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders and denounced Hillary Clinton’s record of supporting regime change. -A science program titled "Three Trillion Trees" at the 5th and K Busboys and Poets. -A panel discussion: “Paris to DC: Acting for Affordable Clean Energy” at the United Nations Foundation. -A major Summit on Saudi Arabia and US-Saudi ties is March 5 and 6 at UDC, sponsored by Code Pink and other organizations.

In April 2014, Exelon, the nation's largest nuclear power generator, made a $6.8 billion offer for Washington D.C.-based Pepco. Exelon - which already owns Illinois ComEd and Baltimore G&E - would become the largest electric utility in the country, with nearly 10 million customers. Shareholders, federal regulators, and many state utility commissions have approved the deal. But in August, the D.C. Public Service Commission unanimously rejected it, finding little public benefit. Now, just three months later, amid allegations of corruption, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has settled with Exelon and the D.C. Commission has been asked to reconsider. In this episode of Local Energy Rules, D.C. resident and executive director of the Community Power Network, Anya Schoolman, joins John Farrell to talk about why the merger is being reconsidered, the allegations against Mayor Bowser, and how the takeover seems like another story of energy monopoly at work. The Atom Bombed The takeover bid comes at a harrowing time for Exelon, says Schoolman. It is the nation's biggest nuclear power generator, but in recent years, business has lagged. As cheap natural gas and wind out-competed its nuclear holdings, Exelon's stock fell from $91 in April 2008 to about $30 today. Rather than compete against cheap wind and natural gas on the open market, Exelon has made moves to buy regulated utilities. In this case, it would acquire Pepco and its profits, guaranteed by state commissions. If the deal is completed, nearly 67% of Exelon's income will come from captive ratepayers, up from just 17% in 2008. Exelon's hard times are not unique. Schoolman notes that other electric utilities with expensive, legacy power plants have sought bailouts in Ohio and West Virginia. Earlier this year, Exelon backed legislation in Illinois to get a $1.6 billion bailout for its un-competitive nuclear plants. So What Changed? “Pepco will become a second tier company in a much larger corporation whose primary interest is not in distribution, but in generation,” said the DC Public Service Commission in August when they first denied Exelon's merger. “At a time of change in the energy field, Pepco's ability to adapt will be constrained by an increased management bureaucracy. We are also concerned about the inherent conflict of interest that might inhibit our local distribution company from moving forward to embrace a cleaner and greener environment.” When she first heard about the new commitments from Exelon, Schoolman says she was worried that her Power DC coalition was going to be in a tough negotiating position. But then she heard the actual results.

Until this week, most people thought Exelon's planned $6.9 billion acquisition of Pepco was a sure bet. But in a blow to both companies, regulators in the District of Columbia rejected the deal.What happened? The story is not just about a business deal gone awry. It’s a story about local empowerment, how utilities are dealing with the dramatic swing in America’s electricity market, and the tough decisions regulators are grappling with as they consider how to promote a cleaner grid. We will talk to Anya Schoolman, an organizer in DC who opposed the deal, about how a group of citizens derailed one of the largest utility acquisitions in history. Later in the show, we'll examine how recent turmoil in the financial markets may impact energy markets. And we'll finish with a discussion of President Obama's latest announcement on PACE and loan guarantees. This podcast is sponsored by ReneSola, a Tier 1 solar cell and module manufacturer with a decade of experience in the cleantech industry. The Energy Gang is produced by Greentechmedia.com. The show features weekly discussions between energy futurist Jigar Shah, energy policy expert Katherine Hamilton and Greentech Media Editor Stephen Lacey.

Some people are installing solar hot water heaters, others are powering their houses from renewables, some though are going further and creating whole communities powered in part or full by renewable energy. In this episode I chat with Anya Schoolman from the Mt Pleasant Solar Coop and Community Power Network. I also briefly touch on the Hepburn Wind Project in Victoria.