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A building that began as a one-room schoolhouse has grown over the decades into a lifeline for a New Mexico community far from city infrastructure, and a recent solar installation has added resilience to the site. According to Solar Power World, the structure now houses the Ojo Sarco Community Center, which was founded in the early 20th century in an unincorporated community of about 300 people roughly 43 miles northeast of Santa Fe.
Carol Miller, a grant writer and board member for the center, described the community as lacking political voice and having lost resources over the years, including its post office. She said residents must commute for nearly everything, with a round trip for basic amenities taking about 40 minutes.
The community center has sought to fill those gaps with services including a twice-monthly food bank, summer meal programs for children, safety classes and resident outings such as a night at the opera. The center also recently met all the qualifications to become a state library.
PPC Solar, also known as Paradise Power Company, of Taos, built a 7.5-kW solar project paired with 10.6-kWh of LFP energy storage at the center at no cost to the community. The contractor donates a solar array to a regional nonprofit each year, and the Ojo Sarco Community Center was awarded the project after three years of applying.
CEO Daniel Weinman said his father founded Paradise Power Company in the 1970s and that the company has installed solar in off-the-grid communities since its start. He said the annual nonprofit donation program has run for more than a decade and has served farming organizations and land conservation groups, among others, with the aim of finding the right fit and making a good impact. For this project, he said resiliency was the best way to do that.
Solar Power World spoke with PPC Solar and center organizers about the project’s effect since it was built in fall 2025.
Larry Miller, project manager and board member, called it a transformative project for the small community and said the solar panels are now part of the center’s history and are pointed out to visitors.
Carol Miller said the installation has lowered electric costs, which matters for a shoestring operation. She said internet remains available even when the power is out, that children attending library programs are solar oriented, and that the company and its staff have had ripple effects throughout the broader community.
Preston Bastardo, who works in sales and design at PPC Solar, said mounting the array on the roof presented challenges that required exploring the attic to land things where needed. He said the building has two large areas and that installation of the batteries faced restrictions, but a mechanical closet was suitable for them. For backup circuits, the project used a partial facility backup with a critical loads panel next to the main panel, and he said everything went smoothly.
Weinman traced the effort to the company’s roots, noting that in 1972 there was no technology supporting solar and that his father developed his own controls and safety protections, found used panels and batteries, and brought power to places without it. He said his own home started with kerosene lanterns and did not have electricity until a solar power system was installed, which he described as life changing. He said building on that legacy and offering systems to communities that need them adds to it and is profound, and that the company wants to continue participating however it can.
Carol Miller said the community is very old and proud of it. Having worked with local businesses and its electrical cooperative, she said owning its power makes the community an exception rather than the rule, and that any technology shared equally in a low-income community has ripple effects beyond what some imagined years ago.
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