Keep in mind as you read this article that for $498,658,966 the state and federal governments could purchase and give away 1,184,491 of these 4,000 watt generators (without assuming any discount for bulk purchase.)
Solar panels are BLOWN TO BITS during a hurricane.
The Federal government is actually going to match what the state of Louisiana is paying up.
We could distribute 4K watt generators to people.
1.7 households in all of Louisiana anyway – you could cover each home in Louisiana for that sticker price.
The State of Louisiana will launch a strategic energy resilience initiative, Hubs for Energy Resilient Operations – HERO – to establish a foundational approach for accelerating more abundant, affordable, and reliable clean energy for greater power resilience in the face of rising extreme weather and more frequent natural disasters. HERO unites the public, private, and philanthropic sectors by applying a multi-stakeholder coordination framework with a common set of objectives and shared commitments to help solve energy security challenges and protect the residents of Louisiana from climate-related threats. The project will deploy a comprehensive, data-driven integrated community energy planning process as well as a modernized network of Community Resilience Hubs powered by distributed energy resources microgrids.