Evidence from the early introduction of solar energy in Illinois illustrates that solar energy is bypassing Black and Brown communities throughout Illinois, just as digital service bypassed Black and Brown communities during the digital revolution that swept across America a generation ago. And just as the digital revolution’s bypassing of Black and Brown communities a generation ago had tragic consequences for those communities that are devastatingly harmful to them even today, there will be tremendous devastation that will occur in Black and Brown communities for generations to come if solar energy is allowed to continue to leapfrog Black and Brown communities throughout Illinois, as it has done during its initial introduction of service throughout Illinois.

Sun Bright Energy, LLC, is the first certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) solar design-build company in Illinois that was created to help prevent solar energy from leapfrogging Black and Brown communities, and economically-distressed White communities, throughout Illinois. Consequently Sun Bright Energy’s primary mission is to build solar array systems in minority communities and economically-challenged White communities throughout Illinois so that these communities receive their fair share of the thousands of living and prevailing wage jobs that solar energy is bringing to Illinois, while they receive the health and economic benefits that clean green-energy provides wherever it is installed.

In essence Sun Bright Energy’s goal is to help move these communities, inside Illinois and beyond, into our nation’s middle class. As it does so, Sun Bright Energy will help make these communities healthier both biologically and economically so that their future’s will become as bright as our sun.