Community and faith groups are raising $13.8 million to build clean-powered ​“lighthouses” across Louisiana and boost post-hurricane grid resilience.

Community and faith groups are raising $13.8 million to build clean-powered ​“lighthouses” across Louisiana and boost post-hurricane grid resilience.

The “Community Lighthouse” effort led by Together New Orleans, is part of a broader push among community groups and environmental justice advocates in Louisiana to create an alternative to an energy infrastructure agreeing to serve as community sanctuaries during power outages due hurricanes and storms. The plan? Solar-powered microgrids, or “community lighthouses,” throughout the city.

Household of Faith Family worship Church in New Orleans is one such place. Antoine Barriere, senior pastor, and Together New Orleans leader, described the plan as making Louisiana a ​“world model for grid resilience and disaster response.”

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Barriere said that building resilience from the local community level up is a central part of that vision. “We’ve spent years saying, ​‘When are they going to fix the levees, when are they going to set up cooling centers?” Barriere said. ​“We have to stop saying, ​‘When are they going to?’ and start saying, ​‘How are we going to?’”

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