Georgia Tech students use solar power to help Atlanta animal nonprofit
“It just depends on what the sun gives us”
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - What if you could use your passion to help others? A group of Georgia Institute of Technology students are using solar power to help an animal welfare organization.
The five students are ambassadors with RE-volv; an organization that helps nonprofits go solar. They reached out to LifeLine Animal Project in February 2023 about using renewable energy to help them save millions of dollars. Dollars that could go back to helping Atlanta’s animals find their forever homes.
“It helps the animal shelter, it helps the students and it also helps the environment as well,” said Julia Fleischman, a student at Georgia Tech.
“A success story here is a home, getting healthy enough to be in a home,” said Tracey Thompson, Executive Director with Lifeline Animal Project.
The students teamed up with the nonprofit to install solar panels that could offset 200 tons of carbon emissions each year. The panels at LifeLine are projected to last about 20 years and save the organization about $1.6 million.
“We really won’t know until the sun starts shining on those panels and starts making the power, it [the money saved] may be more, it just depends on you know, what the sun gives us,” said Thompson.
“It is really special that our first project was with an animal shelter,” said Fleischman. “It also encourages other nonprofits in Atlanta to try and go solar as well because now they can see that it does create a positive impact.”
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