Students Through PG&E’s Solar Suitcase Program Bring Light to 2,400 Kenyans
29 September 2016 - 12:04AM
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:
School Name
City
North High School Bakersfield Delta Vista High School
Byron Inspire School of Arts & Sciences
Chico Buchanan High School Clovis Jefferson
High School Daly City Madera South High School
Madera Skyline High School Oakland Oakland
Technical High School Oakland Sonoma Mountain &
Carpe Diem High Schools Petaluma Pinole Valley High
School Pinole Rio Americano High School
Sacramento Lincoln High School San Francisco
Independence High School San Jose Seaside High School
Seaside Templeton High School Templeton
Tracy High School Tracy Upper Lake High School
Upper Lake Winters High School Winters
To learn more about the PG&E Solar Suitcase Program, visit
http://www.pge.com/solarsuitcase.
About PG&E
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a subsidiary of PG&E
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 Central California. For more information, visit
www.pge.com/ and
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