Canary Media: The Rural N.C. Mayor Betting Big on Clean Energy

The story that started it all. Canary Media's Elizabeth Ouzts traveled to Enfield to profile Mayor Mondale Robinson and the clean energy vision taking shape in one of the nation's poorest towns. The piece covers the full ambition: a community solar farm that could supply all 1,200 of Enfield's electric meters, a resilience hub, and a weatherization center. It also captures the structural reality that makes this possible: Enfield owns its own municipal utility, a holdover from when private providers saw no profit in serving a hamlet of 2,000 people. That historical oversight is now Enfield's greatest asset.

Read the full article at Canary Media