"It's going to be the first bungalow-court project built in Los Angeles in 70 years," said project manager Jason Neville.

The city has been planning for years to renovate the Scattergood, Haynes, and Harbor facilities, which sit along the California coastline, because of a 2010 state law that requires power plants to stop using ocean water for cooling, according to Reuters. Instead, the city will close the facilities by 2029.

But whether the target is 2045 or 2050, getting there will involve planning.

The proposal was developed through a partnership between Community Partners, Pacoima Beautiful, The Trust for Public Land, LA Business Council, GRID Alternatives Greater Los Angeles, LA Conservation Corps, LA Cleantech Incubator, UCLA and the City of Los Angeles, and would expand economic opportunity and make the community more resilient to impacts from climate change.

The programs funded through the grant were developed by the "Green Together" collaborative led by Pacoima Beautiful and includes Community Partners, Grid Alternatives and Los Angeles Conservation Corps among other organizations and city departments.

Grant recipients include the Los Angeles Business Council Institute (LABCi) as the team lead, Pacoima Beautiful, GRID Alternatives, The Trust for Public Land, and Los Angeles Conservation Corps.

As stated by Michael Kadish, executive director at GRID Alternatives Greater Los Angeles, "With the support of the partners here today, we've brought clean power to Boyle Heights that will save Homeboy Industries $2,900 in the first year alone."

"And equally important, we're making sure that we have programs that aren't just for the wealthiest of our residents, but everybody, so there's solar equity throughout Los Angeles."

"We experienced a fire the size of Denver that destroyed over a billion and a half dollars worth of homes and killed people," he told The Hollywood Reporter before the Los Angeles premiere of documentary Paris to Pittsburgh at the Museum of Contemporary Art. "We have communities of color and low-income communities near the port of L.A. that have cancer and asthma rates that are higher than other places."

According to GRID Alternatives Greater Los Angeles, solar is a rapidly-expanding part of California's electrical needs and a growing industry for local hiring.