Community Lighthouse
Community Lighthouses—already the nation’s largest network of solar+storage resilience hubs—provide commercial-scale solar power and back-up battery capacity to congregations and community institutions throughout the city. During extended power outages, the Lighthouses immediately assess need and aid area residents.
A Citywide Network Serving Every Neighborhood
With more frequent and destructive weather events, extended power outages are becoming a more common threat to people throughout the region and beyond.
The initial pilot phase of 16 community lighthouses is underway, and when the entire network of 86 lighthouses is complete, every New Orleans resident will live within a 15-minute walk of one.
Creating High-Wage Jobs of the Future
Beyond their role in neighborhood-level disaster response, the lighthouses represent a significant investment in workforce development that includes project labor agreements to hire local workers at living wages for all stages of the process.
A Statewide Resilience Strategy
Community Lighthouses across Louisiana are generating zero-emission energy and strengthening neighborhood-level resilience.
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FUNDING PARTNERS
The Community Lighthouse project is being funded through public-private partnerships and philanthropic efforts, including:
$1 million from the Greater New Orleans Foundation through a “Leadership Challenge Grant” to launch the initiative
$3.8 million community project funding by Congressman Troy A. Carter, Sr. - the second-largest in the nation for a solar-related project
$2 million from the City of New Orleans
$500,000 from Caddo Parish
$500,000 from the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Council
Other funders include the U.S. Department of Energy, Kresge Foundation, Direct Relief and Episcopal Relief and Development.