Monday, August 06, 2018

OFF THE GRID - Navajo Nation

PART-1:  "How off-the-grid Navajo residents are getting running water" PBS NewsHour 6/20/2018

"Does solar power offer a brighter future for off-the-grid Navajo residents?" Part-2 PBS NewsHour 8/1/2018

Excerpt

SUMMARY:  Bypassed in the ‘30s and '40s, one third of homes in Navajo Nation still have no access to grid electricity.  Yet ironically, it's a huge electricity exporter, with one of the biggest coal-fired plants churning out power sold to millions.  And now a plan to shut down the plant could sorely cost the reservation.  Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports that some are seeing a new opportunity.

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