Covenant Solar Power
solar power for churches
Some Questions for Churches to Ponder:
Do you strive to be good stewards of God’s creation?
Are you troubled by the many signs of climate crisis?
Do other operating and mission priorities place investment in a solar system out of reach?
Would a financing program that provides affordable electricity and leads to eventual system ownership be interesting?
Alarming Reminders of Global Climate Change
Eighteen of the nineteen hottest years for our planet since we began modern global record keeping in 1880 have occurred since 2000. This intensifies the cycle droughts and flooding.
Renewable energy has grown to 10% of power supply in most of the world, displacing coal. However, to hit the global goal of holding the temperature increase to 1.5 degree C, renewables must grow faster and coal use must decrease by almost 80% by 2030.
In the first six months of 2020 Siberia experienced unusually high temperatures, including a record-breaking 38
(99
F) in the town of Verkhoyansk on June 20, causing wildfires, loss of permafrost and an invasion of pests.
Greenland lost a massive amount of ice in 2019, an amount large enough to cover the entire state of Texas with over 2.5 feet of water.