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Total Sustainability: Solarthon 2012 in South LA
Los Angeles is increasingly becoming a clean technology hub, but for South Los Angeles residents, who face severe economic and environmental challenges—high rates of foreclosure, unemployment, and pollution—the benefits of clean energy are typically out of reach. All that changed in one neighborhood on Saturday November 10th, when GRID Alternatives Greater Los Angeles installed solar electric systems for ten low-income families in the lovely Willowbrook area.

When it all comes together!
Volunteer Jeffery Trirogoff has been committed to GRID Alternatives since his first installation in March of 2011. He came in with clear intentions and a clear goal. Already having achieved a BPI Certification, this Green enthusiast wanted to obtain his NABCEP Installers Certification while giving back to the community at large.

A Solar Birthday in Santa Ana: Mitsubishi and GRID Alternatives
Saturday November 10th was a special day. GRID Alternatives partnered with Mitsubishi Electric for a corporate sponsored workday event and led a team of hardworking and enthusiastic Mitsubishi volunteers to install a 2.1 kW system for Esteban Fuentes and his wife Marisela Rodriguez in Santa Ana. But it was also Marisela’s birthday and after lunch the family invited the whole team for cake and candles on the back porch to celebrate.

Ditch Your Ties and Roll Up Your Sleeves!: A Sponsored Workday with Dole

In February of 2012, GRID Alternatives Greater Los Angeles completed our first sponsored workday event in Ventura County! Volunteers from the Dole Foods world headquarters in Westlake Village joined GRID Alternatives staff and volunteer Team Leaders and installed solar for the Montelongo Family of Thousand Oaks. This small 1.2 kW solar electric system will reduce almost 40 tons of C02 in its lifetime, the equivalent of planting over 100 trees, and will cut the Montelongo family’s monthly energy bills in half.

Positively 124th Street: GRID Alternatives in Compton
GRID Alternatives Greater Los Angeles closed out the last days of March with solar electric systems installed at no cost for two low-income families on 124th Street in Compton. These solar installation projects were supported by a grant from the Southern California Gas Company, which is supporting 25 solar electric installations for low-income families in 2012 as part of their Bettering the Air We Breathe Campaign.