Solar Spring Break

Mendocino College students trying on Personal Protection Equipment at North Coast Bay Area office warehouse

Mendocino College visits North Coast office!

Mendocino College visits Bay Area North Coast's office.

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Solar Spark Collegiate 2021 Conference

GRID Alternatives is excited to host the Solar Spark Collegiate Conference from April 1-4, 2021.

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Solar Spring Break Partners Spotlight: Georgia Tech and Duke University

GRID Alternatives Inland Empire would like to thank the Georgia Tech and Duke University students and faculty advisers who signed up for this year’s Solar Spring Break Program.

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Spring Break in Los Angeles: Solar Spring Break challenged us to engineer a better world

As the engineers of the future, we're proud that these Spring Breakers will have a new perspective on energy equity that shapes their values.

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GRID’s response to COVID-19

Safety is a core GRID value. With the rapid spread of the new coronavirus (COVID-19), we want to share with you the response GRID is taking to slow the spread of the virus and limit potential exposure for our staff, our partners, our volunteers and trainees, and the communities we work with.

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Compton's civil rights groundbreakers tour Energy for All installation, speak to volunteers

The excitement they felt is a lot like the excitement our California-based trainees, volunteers, and other partners feel almost every day!

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3/2/2020 - College Students Connect with Hands-on Climate Solutions through National “Solar Spring Break”

Now through May, over 160 students, representing 16 colleges and universities from nine states, will get hands-on with renewable energy and spend their school break installing no-cost solar for low-income families through GRID's seventh Solar Spring Break. UPDATE: As of March 16, all Solar Spring Break trips have been canceled in response to COVID-19.

Solar Spring Break immerses students in social and energy justice

GRID Alternatives' Solar Spring Break is sponsored by Wells Fargo.

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Solar Spring Break 2020

GRID Alternatives’ Solar Spring Break (SSB) Program, sponsored by Wells Fargo, is a national alternative break program that creates opportunities for students to make a difference in low-income communities while getting hands-on training in renewable energy.

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Solar Spring Breaker to a Summer Fellow at GRID

Alexis Thomspon was a Solar Spring Break student leader for the University of Michigan teams and is now doing an internship as the Clean Mobility Equity Research Fellow at GRID Alternatives. Read about her experience with Solar Spring Break and how it changed her perspective in solar and renewable energy.

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