Federal Grant Will Facilitate Solar-Energy Project Between Israeli Agricultural Firm and HBCUs

A new project led by Energiya Global Capital, an Israeli investment firm for green energy initiatives in Africa, has received a $1 million grant from the United States Department of Agriculture and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund to share their expertise in solar energy with historically Black colleges and universities in the United States.

Facilitated by the company’s nonprofit, Gigawatt Impact, the project will focus on teaching scholars at HBCUs, as well as rural farmers in the American South, about agrivolatics, a practice that uses the same land for agriculture and solar energy production.

“The people who brought solar energy to Israel and sub-Saharan Africa are now bringing our innovation and tech solutions to historically Black colleges and rural Black farmers in the United States,” Yosef Abramowitz, president and CEO of Energiya Global Capital, told the Jewish News Syndicate

Abramotwiz continued, “This is Israel’s contribution to a new positive era in Black-Jewish relations through innovation.”

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