Stakeholders
Stakeholders of this Solar Over Louisville: 2 Million Watt Solar Challenge are diverse and ever growing. The open forum of the SOL campaign allows us to expand, identify and connect with the people, organizations and businesses that want to get involved in this effort.
In addition to the initial collaborators highlighted below, we embrace additional stakeholders such as community members; businesses; trade associations; building trades professionals; investors; government, nonprofit, and community agencies; purchasers; and suppliers. Connecting to this effort, getting involved, or simply telling others about Solar Over Louisville will help us learn how we can help you.
Initial Collaborators:
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Louisville Sustainability Council (LSC)
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Metro Office of Sustainability
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Kentucky Solar Energy Society
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Sierra Club
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350 Louisville
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Kentucky Interfaith Power and Light (KIPL)
Louisville Metro
Office of Sustainability
The Louisville Sustainability Council promotes a healthy environment, strong economy, and the well-being of the people living in Louisville, KY. Our mission is to engage and collaborate with the community to facilitate the achievement of Louisville’s sustainability goals. The LSC improves health and quality of life in the community by identifying gaps and creating community action to close them. More...
Kentucky
Solar Energy Society
The Kentucky Solar Energy Society (KySES) is an association of solar professionals, advocates, and enthusiasts dedicated to advancing solar and other renewable energy, and energy efficiency and conservation, across Kentucky. KySES seeks to educate the public and promote policy changes that will advance solar energy in Kentucky. More...
Kentucky Interfaith
Power and Light
Kentucky Interfaith Power and Light is dedicated to bringing people together to care for the planet and each other through stewardship. We are a collection of individuals and communities of faith that come from many diverse traditions and believe that we have a personal responsibility to care for the planet and its people. Kentucky Interfaith Power and Light is committed to mobilizing a religious response to climate change through conservation, efficiency and renewable energy. More...
Louisville Sustainability Council
Mayor Greg Fischer formed the Louisville Metro Office of Sustainability in 2012 with a mission of promoting environmental conservation, the health, wellness and prosperity of our citizens, and embedding sustainability into the culture of the Louisville community. Creating a culture of sustainability will be achieved through broad-based education and awareness efforts as well as implementation of projects and initiatives to influence behavior change. More...
Greater Louisville
Sierra Club
THE GREATER LOUISVILLE SIERRA CLUB is a community grassroots organization that strives to inform its members, the public and decision makers on environmental, natural resource, and land use issues. The Sierra Club will work aggressively and effectively for clean air and water and the preservation of habitat for all species including human beings. More...
350 Louisville
350 Louisville is a local affinity group of 350.org. We are fighting to keep global temperature within 2 degrees Celsius of pre-industrial revolution temperatures. As humans have begun burning fossil fuels in large quantities, carbon proportions have steadily increased. 350 is the number of parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere deemed THE UPPER LIMIT OF SAFE for living things on our one and only planet. Right now, we’re up around 400ppm, and that unsafe number won’t be going down for thousands of years. More...