Press Releases

9/15/2015 GRID Alternatives and NeighborWorks America Launch National Low-Income Solar Partnership

GRID Alternatives announced a partnership with NeighborWorks America, a national nonprofit that creates opportunities for people to live in affordable homes, improve their lives, and strengthen their communities, to extend the benefits of solar energy to lowincome families in New Jersey, New York, Colorado, and California. The partnership was announced at a three-home solar installation in Camden, N.J., one of the nation’s most economically disadvantaged communities.

9/2/15 Colorado Energy Office Awards GRID Alternatives $1.2 Million to Develop Low-Income Community Solar
The Colorado Energy Office is awarding $1.2 million in grant funding to GRID Alternatives to implement a solar demonstration project for low-income communities in Colorado. GRID Alternatives Colorado will develop up to 12 community solar systems, ranging in size from 50 to 500 kilowatts, throughout the state. Cumulatively, the demonstration project will provide over one megawatt of installed solar capacity. The projects will serve at least 300 low-income families and are expected to offset at least 50 percent of subscribing families’ electricity costs over each four-year subscription term.

6/25/15 - SunPower and GRID Alternatives Announce New K-14 Education Initiative
SunPower Corp., a global solar technology and energy services provider, today announced a major new philanthropic initiative in partnership with GRID Alternatives, the nation's largest non-profit solar installer. The Solar Futures program will expand on GRID Alternatives' work in high schools, providing both classroom and hands-on solar training to K-14 students, with a focus on high school juniors and seniors.

6/30/15 - Enphase Energy and GRID Alternatives to Expand Low-Income Solar Partnership
Enphase Energy Inc. today announced a major expansion of its philanthropic partnership with GRID Alternatives, the nation's largest non-profit solar installer, helping the organization provide rooftop solar installations and hands-on job training in low-income communities across the United States. The agreement will help drive an estimated three megawatts (MW) of new capacity, save 900 families $25 million in energy costs over the systems' lifetimes, and prevent 78,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions.

7/7/2015 - Obama Administration Announces National Investment in GRID Alternatives’ SolarCorps Program

White House and other government officials gathered today at a live solar installation Baltimore to announce a series of commitments around solar in low-income communities, including a major new investment in GRID Alternatives’ SolarCorps Program through the Corporation for National and Community Service. Under the program, 40 AmeriCorps members will gain hands-on training and skills to access jobs in the booming solar industry each year through service at GRID Alternatives’ affiliates and offices throughout the

6/18/2015 - City, Non-profit Partnership Brings Solar Power and Job Training to East Baltimore’s C.A.R.E. Community

Government officials and community leaders gathered at the home of Leonard Wills in East Baltimore’s C.A.R.E Community to kick of a project that will bring the benefits of solar power to local residents and serve as a model for improving community sustainability and resiliency citywide. Led by nonprofit GRID Alternatives in partnership with the Baltimore Office of Sustainability and the Baltimore Energy Challenge, the project includes solar installations for 10 families and a community center.

3/26/2015 - GRID Alternatives and Grand Valley Power Announce Community Solar Partnership to Serve Low-Income Customers

GRID Alternatives and Grand Valley Power (GVP), an electric cooperative utility based in Grand Junction, CO, today announced an unprecedented partnership to develop and produce a community solar garden dedicated exclusively to rate-payers qualified as low-income. The first of its kind in Colorado, the 25kW array will provide clean, renewable power to 6-10 families in the Grand Junction area, offsetting up to 90% of their electricity costs.

5/18/2015 - AB32 Investments Hit Rooftops in Disadvantaged Communities Statewide
GRID Alternatives to install solar for over 1,600 families through the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. Legislators, administration officials and community groups gathered today at a live solar installation in Sacramento to highlight the state’s partnership with GRID Alternatives, the nation’s largest nonprofit solar installer, to expand clean energy access to disadvantaged communities.

2/20/2015- SunEdison and GRID Alternatives Announce Major Solar Workforce Initiative
SunEdison, Inc. the world's largest renewable energy development company, and the SunEdison Foundation, today announced a $5 million contribution to their philanthropic partnership with GRID Alternatives, the nation's largest non-profit solar installer. Together, the organizations are launching a two-year initiative called RISE to connect the industry's growing demand for skilled workers with communities that need jobs, and to build a more inclusive solar workforce.