Sonja Ebron, CEO of blackEnergy, was honored with the 2007 “Non-Traditional Business Enterprise” award by the Atlanta Business League at its 23rd Annual Super Tuesday Conference on September 25, 2007. The Super Tuesday Conference is the ABL’s signature event, designed to recognize and celebrate African American business women. This year’s sponsors included AirTran Airways, the Coca-Cola Company, UPS, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
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The summer issue of Ms. Magazine carried an article entitled “The Green Bottom Line: How environmentally conscious, women-run companies do good and do well.” The article, written by Ms. contributor Laura Orlando, begins with blackEnergy: “The trade-off between social good, the environment and profits isn’t really a tradeoff anymore — it’s an excuse. Just ask Sonja Ebron, CEO of blackEnergy in Atlanta. Her company, founded in 2001, secures energy for black communities, using collective buying power to negotiate some of the lowest natural gas rates in Georgia. Moreover, it sends some of its profits back to nonprofit organizations in its customers’ communities. And since the company anticipates that access to energy will get much tougher because of climate change, Ebron — who has a doctorate in electrical engineering — hopes its efforts to locally produce power will help ‘ease the transition to low-energy living’ for its customers.”
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Welcome to blackEnergy’s blog. We at blackEnergy hope to start and maintain a discussion on energy in Black communities. The issues are large and complex, as they are for the U.S. as a whole on the topic of energy. But as we say, when America catches a cold, Black folks catch pneumonia. So we’d better get a head start.
On the real deal, I think our energy security is threatened by the equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane, a combination of climate change and peak oil, and I think the “authorities” learned nothing of use to us from our experience with Katrina. We need to get informed and organized in a hurry. At least now we have time to prepare.
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