Press Releases

9/18/2014 - EPA’s McCarthy, HUD’s Castro, White House Officials Spotlight Solar Power for Low-Income Families at Community Installation in Northeast Washington, D.C.
Today U.S. government agency and White House officials paid a personal visit to the home of Kiona Mack, a single mother in the economically challenged Ivy City neighborhood in Northeast Washington, D.C., joining volunteers, job trainees, and community partners to install solar panels on her home. The project was led by GRID Alternatives, the country’s largest nonprofit solar installer, which is launching its new mid-Atlantic presence with this neighborhood project to install solar energy systems on 10 Habitat for Humanity of Washington D.C.homes.

9/15/2014 - EPA’s McCarthy, HUD’s Castro, White House reps at solar energy home builds for low-income families.

Today, more than 15 gigawatts of solar energy have been installed in the U.S., enough to power 3.2 million homes. However, important national policy issues remain around its reach into underserved communities. Join us to highlight a very compelling community partnership program that demonstrates how low-income communities can gain access to solar energy and skilled jobs in a growth industry. 

5/20/14 - GRID Alternatives Completes Largest Solar Deployment for Affordable Homes
City officials, homeowners and other partners and dignitaries joined GRID Alternatives, the nation’s largest non-profit solar installer, to celebrate the installation of solar electric systems on 84 homes in a single affordable housing community. The project, in Palm Desert’s Desert Rose community, represents the largest ever solar deployment through California’s Single-Family Affordable Solar Homes program (SASH), which GRID Alternatives manages on behalf of the CPUC.

3/4/2014 - Solar Spring Break brings solar power to Tribal Families

Eleven students from the University of Michigan are soaking up the California sunshine this year not on the beach, but on the rooftop, installing solar power for three tribal families at the La Jolla Band of Luiseño Indians reservation through GRID Alternatives’ Solar Spring Break. 

4/08/2014 - Enphase Energy Expands National Low-Income Solar Partnership

Enphase Energy, Inc., today announced a major expansion of its philanthropic partnership with GRID Alternatives, a nonprofit that makes solar power and solar job training available to underserved communities. Over the last four years, GRID Alternatives and Enphase have powered over 1,000 low-income homes across the U.S., generating over $25 million in long-term savings to help these families pay for basic expenses.