It’s All About Emergi: Tackling Climate Change One House At a Time

Eric Scheier (right) and Karyn Miller founded Carrboro-based Emergi

We’ve, very gratefully, excerpted this article from GrepBeat [full link at the end of this excerpt].

Friends Eric Scheier and Karyn Miller grew up together in Raleigh and have always bonded over their mutual passion for sustainability and equity. In 2018, the two became business partners and founded Carrboro-based Emergi, a cooperative nonprofit startup that connects homeowners to solar energy via the existing electrical grid. 

Scheier, a UNC alum with a history of working in solar energy, and Miller, with experience in the Peace Corps and working with nonprofits, are participating in the Launch Chapel Hill accelerator this summer. Emergi evolved out of a consulting company Scheier began in 2014 called Emergi Solar, where he advised businesses on clean energy solutions. 

After launching their product in spring of this year, Emergi has already prevented hundreds of tons of carbon from entering the atmosphere, Scheier said.

How do they do it? By using a concept called “emergy,” which traces the flow of energy through ecosystems, Emergi connects North Carolina homeowners to local solar energy farms by connecting those farms to the grid. Please turn to the original GrepBeat article to continue reading. . .