A San Diego Jewish Day School has it’s eye on sustainability, with a massive new solar project
Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
By David Ian Klein December 10, 2020
The San Diego Jewish Academy’s (SDJA) roofs and much of its 56-acre campus will soon be lined with solar panels, Solar Builder Magazine reports.
The project is part of the K-12 pluralistic Jewish day school’s sustainability initiative, which the school hopes will put it on a path to energy self-sufficiency.
The solar project is set to be completed by March, 2021, and will allow the school to produce some 800 kilowatt hours of energy regularly — about the amount needed to power the average home for a month. Once completed, the project is expected to save the school nearly half a million dollars in annual energy costs.
But beyond saving money, the school thinks the solar panels will have educational benefits.
“We envision our SDJA students learning the technology and operating the controls of the eventual micro-grid on our campus,” said Michael Zimerman, the school’s chief sustainability officer.
According to Zimerman, the school’s goal is to become the first K-12 independent school in the country to install a fully self-sufficient micro-grid.
This is a moment of great uncertainty. Here’s what you can do about it.
We hope you appreciated this article. Before you go, we’d like to ask you to please support the Forward’s independent Jewish news this Passover. All donations are being matched by the Forward Board - up to $100,000.
This is a moment of great uncertainty for the news media, for the Jewish people, and for our sacred democracy. It is a time of confusion and declining trust in public institutions. An era in which we need humans to report facts, conduct investigations that hold power to account, tell stories that matter and share honest discourse on all that divides us.
With no paywall or subscriptions, the Forward is entirely supported by readers like you. Every dollar you give this Passover is invested in the future of the Forward — and telling the American Jewish story fully and fairly.
The Forward doesn’t rely on funding from institutions like governments or your local Jewish federation. There are thousands of readers like you who give us $18 or $36 or $100 each month or year.
Support our mission to tell the Jewish story fully and fairly.
