A community solar project designed to help low-income members gain more control over their energy costs is in the works at a Colorado electric cooperative.

The Colorado chapter of California-based nonprofit solar installer GRID Alternatives and Grand Valley Power (GVP), an electric cooperative utility based in Grand Junction, Colo., have partnered to develop a 25 kW community solar garden dedicated exclusively to low-income ratepayers.

GRID Alternatives, the nation’s largest non-profit installer of solar energy systems, has teamed up with Grand Valley Power of Grand Junction, Colorado to create a community solar installation  dedicated exclusively to serving the needs of low income families, reports Solar Power World

Grand Junction, COLO. Grand Valley Power is partnering with GRID Alternatives to help low-income families save up to 50% on their electric bills.

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GRID Alternatives, the nation’s largest non-profit solar installer, 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.

Grand Junction will be the first in what is likely to be a series of cities in Colorado to get a solar panel array that will lower electrical bills for low-income utility customers.

GRID Alternatives, the nation’s largest non-profit solar installer, 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.

Grand Junction, COLO. Grand Valley Power is partnering with GRID Alternatives to help low-income families save over 50% on their electric bills

GRAND JUNCTION,Colo. - Grand Valley Power and the largest non-profit solar installer, Grid Alternatives, are partnering to form the nation's first community solar partnership to serve low-income customers.

Grand Valley Power and the largest non-profit solar installer, Grid Alternatives, are partnering to form the nation's first community solar partnership to serve low-income customers.