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We’ve combined a simple and powerful goal with bold and beautiful artistic choices to create something unique, adaptable, and fully customizable. The Perennial is the fruit of our labor and is an off grid solar power system that harnesses the natural and limitless energy of the sun in a beautifully collaborative way.
Our mission is to implement The Perennial across the nation in order to serve a deeper purpose within communities across the country. It is to encourage the use of limitless solar power from an age-old resource with practically untapped potential.
We’ve worked tirelessly and meticulously to create this unique, fully customizable solar power system with a distinctive artistic flair and sustainable functionality in abundance. Now it’s time to share our creations with society to help change the world for the better.
The Perennial – A Unique Solar Power System with Roots in Despair
The Perennial takes inspiration out of painful necessity. A painful necessity that is so excruciating, it’s consistently overlooked by those with the ability to make change on a grand scale. We are of course, talking about natural disasters and the action, or inaction, from global leaders.
Hurricane Maria and the destruction caused by this avoidable natural disaster formed the initial basis of inspiration for The Perennial, and it’s not hard to see why. Because of Puerto Rico’s poor electric grid infrastructure, and The Jones Act, citizens of the country were left literally in the dark for almost a year after Hurricane Maria devastated the island.
Let that sink in for a moment. One year. No power.
The lack of power caused by this hurricane led to suffering on a mass scale and the death of over 3,000 innocent people. All of this happened even though the island is in prime position to benefit from off grid solar technologies and solar in general.
Simply telling a loved one you cared or that you were okay was almost impossible due to the sudden removal of power, all thanks to an unreliable system powered by antiquated diesel generators. Diesel generators which were rendered useless, and not only did they add more harmful fumes to the atmosphere, but the sky-high prices of gasoline meant that it was impossible to purchase and fuel them.
The darkness in the evenings were “boca de lobo”, and through this pain and avoidable misery, the idea for The Perennial was born. An off grid solar power system that would help in a situation like we saw in Puerto Rico, and one that would contribute to this kind of thing never happening again.
Inaction From World Leaders
The Perennial is therefore a solar power system that takes inspiration from natural disasters caused by a reliance and overuse of fossil fuels, but also from the inaction of world leaders.
Sometimes things are so glaringly obvious that it’s a surprise, and in this case a massive shame, that they aren’t taken seriously enough. Especially by those who are supposed to be in charge of our world and our future.
This has never been more demonstrable than when the USA withdrew from The Paris Agreement. When you understand that the sun, something we see every single day yet still let pass us by when we need it most, strikes the earth with more power in one single hour than our planet can consume in a year, yet nothing is done on a large scale to harness this energy, then something is wrong. Something is very wrong.
This makes the necessity of solar power systems like The Perennial even more overt. The grid and old ways of doing things aren’t suitable any more. If future generations are to enjoy any sort of life at all we need to understand the severity of things now, and act before it’s too late by taking energy off grid.
