Orange County NC Website
Browse       Search
GHG Reduction <br />(Annual, metric tons <br />CO2e) <br />5.9 <br />GHG Reduction <br />(Annual, metric tons <br />CO2e) Comments <br />This is based on the embedded table calculations and not those provided <br />by the applicant. These numbers were also the staff-adjusted estimates <br />from last year's application. <br />GHG Reduction <br />(Lifetime, metric tons <br />CO2e) <br />148 <br />GHG Reduction <br />(Lifetime, metric tons <br />CO2e) Comments <br />This is based on the embedded table calculations and not those provided <br />by the applicant. These numbers were also the staff-adjusted estimates <br />from last year's application. <br /># of people served in <br />one year <br />230 <br /># of people served in <br />one year comments <br />GHG Data Complete checked <br />GHG Data <br />Comments <br />GHG reduction is based on the embedded table calculations. <br />Other Staff <br />Comments <br />This project was considered new by applicant but is really a continuing <br />project. <br />BOCC & CFE Review Data and Notes <br />Overall Comments <br />from HRC (BOCC <br />Report) <br />Northside is repeatedly denied resources to improve it for elderly and <br />minority residents and instead was gentrified for the student population. As <br />this is more for the residents that are not students, and provides a means <br />of saving them money or putting their money towards better community <br />activity, this is valuable. Additionally, this project also may be able to help <br />connect the energy from that historic community hub to residents in the <br />future if rules change on energy interchanges. <br />Concerns included: Manufacturing of solar panels is a very socially and <br />environmentally unjust endeavor. It involves child labor in Congolese cobalt <br />mines, devastating lithium mining, and toxic waste from rare earth/heavy <br />metal mineral processing. The panels are often then assembled in China <br />using child/slave labor. <br />This does impact a limited number of low-to moderate-income Black <br />families who are specifically in this congregation and feels more like a <br />symbolic act than significant impact to the parishioners (based on their <br />cost-savings for energy). A lot of assumptions made about increased <br />adoption among neighbors, for example. I do appreciate congregants being <br />part of the discussion. <br />Docusign Envelope ID: F42389BC-2D83-4E00-BC11-D720BFF48873