Boratha Tan

Feb 26, 2024 | utilitydive.com | Will Kenworthy |Boratha Tan

Will Kenworthy is regulatory director of the Midwest and Boratha Tan is regulatory manager of the Midwest at Vote Solar. The electric industry is in the midst of a fundamental transition toward clean energy driven by economics and the need to decarbonize the economy. Renewable energy has supplanted fossil fuels as the most economic source of energy. As technology for supply- and demand-side energy reliability evolve, energy adequacy will also be resolved.

Aug 3, 2023 | planetdetroit.org | Michelle Martinez |Jacob Whiton |Rukiya Colvin |Boratha Tan

It’s been well documented that access to nature for Black, Latino, and other people of the Global majority in the United States is limited. Authors like Carolyn Finney and Dorceta Taylor have described histories of structured economic and racial exclusion to clean air, safe spaces, and nature. Most prominently, Black birder Christian Cooper was reported to police by a white onlooker to the police for simply possessing binoculars. (He’s now got his own TV show).

Feb 28, 2023 | votesolar.org | Boratha Tan

My neighbors across the street went to bed Wednesday night, not realizing that the ice storm would knock out their electricity within the hour. Their two brothers in the next room only realized that the power was out because their Fortnite game was cut short. The next day, all four children were told that school was closed because it, too, was out of power. My young neighbors are part of a larger student population that is lagging behind on their education.