Volunteers

Sunpower Volunteers in Marysville

SunPower has continued to be a supporter of GRID since 2015, and has participated in over 100 of our Sponsored Workday opportunities, which totals to nearly 7,000 volunteer hours! This month eleven staff members from SunPower’s Roseville office participated in team-building activities through volunteering in Marysville for the Mertes family. For some of the team, this was their first time volunteering with GRID. Our client Tiffany, who is a bus driver found out GRID through an advertisement while at work.

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Guest Blog: Spring Internship

As a fourth year student at the University of California, Riverside majoring in Sustainability Studies with a minor in Business Administration, I knew I wanted to learn about the social impact the environment has on families in low-income communities.

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Three Sisters Go Solar Together

Josefina Moreno and her two siblings Sandra Barraza and Imelda Flores moved from Chihuahua, Mexico to the United States with their family when they were young girls.

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14 tribes selected to receive funding from Tribal Solar Accelerator Fund

Funding for new tribal facility and residential solar energy projects, including matching funds for Department of Energy grants, will help further tribal energy security and resilience, workforce training and build tribal energy sovereignty. TSAF received more than 40 applications totaling over $7 million in requests for tribal solar projects from dozens of applicants, demonstrating the need and excitement for renewable energy technology and workforce development in tribal communities.

Enphase Renews Partnership

You have to look underneath a solar module to see the important contribution Enphase Energy makes to our work.

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Mid-Atlantic Events

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Life happens outside your comfort zone

In May 2019, Colleen Magee and eight of her fellow IGS coworkers returned to Ohio after a week-long journey with GRID to La Hacienda Orphanage in Tijuana, Mexico, where they installed a 27kW solar system. Colleen shares her experience and the impact of getting outside one's comfort zone.

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Two Grand Terrace Families Receive Solar

Edison International (parent company of Southern California Edison/SCE) teamed up with GRID Alternatives Inland Empire recently to install no cost solar systems for two families in Grand Terrace, California during Earth Week.

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French Students Visit GRID Alternatives Inland Empire

At a recent UCR Solar Energy Conference, a professor from Université Nice Sophia Antipolis stopped by GRID’s table and expressed interest in having their students visit GRID during their trip to the United States. GRID Alternatives Inland Empire (GRID IE) was excited to receive them.

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Staff Spotlight: Artemio Quintana

Artemio has all the traits that we value here at GRID Central Valley and we are more than happy to have him on board.

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