Community Solar as Cooperation
We have developed a work space for shared solar called Community Solar, addressing the new trends for differentiated models of shared solar deployment. This space is based on the work of Community Solar on State: a Living Laboratory Framework for Outreach, Education, and Research– funded by the Reinvention Fund of Penn State’s Sustainability Institute.
Penn State has developed a strong community interest and passion for solar energy research and development. The students, staff, and faculty, and our surrounding community deserve a path to enable the low-carbon future to grow photovoltaic (PV) installations in the framework of the Living Laboratory. We also wish to create an outreach and educational platform that will allow our community to proceed with a pilot community PV project, called a “solar garden”, retain the best practices learned, and then move forward with enabling prospective solar projects as they evolve in the future.
Frey Brownson, PhD
Jeffrey Brownson (Frey) is a queer solar expert, visual artist, Penn State professor, and industry consultant. Haunting the halls of academia. Partner, Queer Dad, Enby Artist, Photon Wrangler.
Big Fab Solar Collab Graduates
Follow the links to download electronic theses and dissertations:
Community Solar
Solar is people. (not a Soylent Green reference)
Get Involved
The Big Fab Solar Collab is a feminist anti-colonial collective that works with colleagues, students, and community members to explore Solar Ecology and social change. Interested? We welcome you too.
Collab Research Overview
We make stuff happen, building something out of nothing, and giving it away. We are a collective group of creative and dedicated students, staff, and a few faculty that are looking to disrupt what it means to do solar!”
Solar Ecology is Farming
Re-configuring the boundaries of energy conversion for the entangled present, solar ecology affects and is affecting our naturecultures as farming.
The Solar Genome Project
The Solar Genome Project (SGP) is a solar non-profit registered in PA (501c3 pending), and functions as an applied extension of the Solar Ecology Program of research.
Solar Resource Measures
We measure what we value. We value what we measure.