Clients

Daily Camera - New solar garden providing savings to Ponderosa Mobile Home Park residents

A first-of-its-kind solar garden is set to save Ponderosa Mobile Home Park residents money on their energy bills.

What Is the Clean Energy Industry Doing to Confront Racism?

Despite the unprecedented action, inequality is not a new or unrecognized problem in the renewables industry. It remains to be seen whether these newest expressions of upset and accompanying initiatives to combat racism within and outside company ranks will continue.

Ontario Resident turned from Skeptic to GRID Enthusiast

Miriam and her family have been Ontario residents for 38 years and she is the matriarch of her large family.

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GRID IE Job Training Partnerships that Make a Difference

Providing solar installation training to individuals who want to enter the solar industry is a crucial component of GRID Alternatives Inland Empire’s (GRID IE) community work. Accessibility to hands-on solar installation training gives individuals the skills needed to land and secure a job in a good paying and growing industry. Therefore, GRID strives to connect trainees to as many opportunities available, including paid training opportunities.

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Community Solar, California’s First Low Income Community Solar Project, Santa Rosa Band of Cahuilla Indian tribal lands in Riverside County

Thanks to $2 million from California Climate Investments through the Low‑Income Weatherization Program, GRID Alternatives Inland Empire (GRID) is implementing the Community Solar Pilot project, the first community solar array in California specifically designed to benefit low‑income households.

Meet our Earth Heroes

This Earth Month, we're celebrating Earth Heroes making the world a better place through their dedication to renewable energy access!

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From Old-School Solar Worker to New-School Solar Homeowner

For Women’s History Month, GRID Mid-Atlantic has been celebrating the efforts and excellence of women in solar. Ramonita Ramey, a GRID client who lives in Northeast D.C., worked in solar a little earlier than the rest of us. To be precise, she got a job making solar cells in a Maryland factory 43 years ago, long before rooftop solar power became popular.

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Honnold Foundation Partnership Brings Solar to CA Wildfire Survivors

It was dark outside when Nakia and her sons, ages nine and thirteen, woke up to get ready for school on the morning of November 18th, 2018. As they drove to school, they looked up at the sky and saw what looked like snow falling.

It wasn’t until they pulled into the school that they realized the town was being evacuated. So, they rushed home to pack a few things and get their cats. Leaving their home for the last time, the air was thick with smoke and the ash was “raining down” as they saw the “flames and fire crews speeding past” them.

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Building Back Better with Solar + Battery Storage

In the years since California’s deadliest wildfire, GRID Alternatives North Valley has installed no-cost solar photovoltaic systems on 10 wildfire survivor’s new homes, including two solar + battery storage projects through our Disaster Recovery Initiative. What follows is a conversation with Richard Stone, a longtime Paradise resident whose family received a solar + battery storage system, lightly edited and condensed for clarity.

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No-Cost Solar for Three Tribal Families

The Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians Tribe received funding from the Tribal Solar Accelerator Fund (TSAF) and partnered with GRID Alternatives Inland Empire (GRID IE) to provide solar for three single family homes.

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