FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ReVision Energy Partners with NH Food Bank to Deliver Thousands
of Meals to Hungry People
Brentwood, NH – Local,
employee-owned solar company ReVision Energy is partnering with the New Hampshire
Food Bank, a program of Catholic Charities NH, to help relieve COVID-related
hunger. During the month of May, ReVision Energy will provide at least 3,500
meals to Granite Staters through the NH Food Bank as an extension of its past
work to bring cost-saving solar energy to soup kitchens, homeless shelters, and
low-income housing throughout New Hampshire.
“We’re grateful to be able to
join the many businesses and individuals in our community who are stepping up
to help neighbors in need,” said Dan Weeks, Director of Market Development for
ReVision Energy. “Our 275 employee-owners envision a clean environment and a
just society for all, which means feeding hungry people while growing the clean
energy economy through solar energy, batteries, EV chargers, heat pumps, and
other technologies.”
As a special incentive to
customers, ReVision Energy is donating 100 additional meals for every residential contract and
500 additional meals for every commercial contract signed in the month of May, to
help keep its employee-owners and union partners on the job as “essential
workers” during the worst unemployment crisis since the Great Depression.
“We are grateful to ReVision Energy for
recognizing the need here in New Hampshire and taking action to support us
during such a critical time.” said Eileen Liponis, Executive Director of the NH
Food Bank. “We receive no federal
or state funding for food distribution and rely on the generosity of businesses
like ReVision Energy to ensure we can provide food to those in need.”
The NH Food Bank is facing
unprecedented demand during the pandemic, with requests up 44% compared to this
time last year.
ReVision Energy
employee-owners regularly volunteer at the Food Bank’s member agencies,
including Nashua Soup Kitchen & Shelter, Claremont Soup Kitchen, and
Friends of Mascoma Food Bank.
One of the largest agencies,
Nashua Soup Kitchen & Shelter, is using solar power installed and financed
by ReVision Energy at no interest to reduce energy costs and carbon pollution.
Nashua Soup Kitchen & Shelter is expected to save roughly $175,000 over the
life of the solar array. ReVision Energy is also installing solar this month for Claremont Soup Kitchen and Food Bank, helping them reduce their utility bills and carbon footprint. ReVision Energy has also installed and financed dozens
of solar arrays for public and low-income housing across the state and donated
a solar array to the Cross Roads House shelter in Portsmouth.
With
this new donation plan in place for the month of May, signing a contract with
ReVision Energy will help relieve COVID-related hunger while stimulating the
local economy and protecting the environment.
ReVision Energy is a
local, employee-owned company on a mission to accelerate New England's clean
energy transition from fossil fuels to solar energy. As a Certified B
Corporation, ReVision is part of a global movement using business as a force
for good to solve social and environmental challenges. ReVision Energy has
completed over 8,000 solar installations since their founding in 2003, and
operates 5 branches across Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts.
The New Hampshire Food Bank, a program of Catholic Charities NH, has been working to
relieve hunger in the Granite State since 1984. The NH Food Bank receives
no federal or state funding for food distribution. In 2019, as the
state’s only Food Bank, the NH Food Bank efficiently procured and distributed
more than 14.2 million pounds of food to people in need through more than 425
non-profit registered agencies. Agencies include food pantries, neighborhood
centers, low-income housing sites, senior nutrition centers, family crisis
centers, hospices, soup kitchens, emergency shelters, after school programs,
and day care centers. For more information about the NH Food Bank, please visit www.nhfoodbank.org.
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For More Information:
Dan Weeks, Director of Market Development
dweeks@revisionenergy.com
(603) 264-2877
