GROUNDWORK NEW ORLEANS

Csn - gwnola established a neighborhood environmental coalition in the 7th ward of new orleans. First operational "beehive" microgrid resilience hub in the country 425k.

Solar microgrid community hub (epa ejps) - groundwork new orleans and its partners seeks to prevent such tragic deaths from happening in the future. New orleans ranks among the top 10 cities in the u.s. For power outages from severe weather, which have doubled nationwide over the last 20 years, and the frequency and length of power failures are at their highest levels since reliability tracking began. Following hurricane ida, nearly one million new orleanians lost power; some residents remained in the dark more than one month later. When power outages occur, groundwork new orleans will be able to conduct needs assessments and provide for those needs by offering charging stations and small battery distribution, food preparation and distribution, cooling/heating stations, and wifi access. Total epa ejps ($116,878) with all other program services is $451,496.