Community Solar

GRID Alternatives' Solar Spring Break brings together students who want to learn about solar design and installation with low-income families who want to go solar and save money on their electric bills.

Michael Kadish, Executive Director of GRID Alternatives Greater Los Angeles, writes about the promise and opportunity of community solar to meet Southern California's clean energy goals in this op-ed for the Long Beach Post.

GRID Alternatives, which makes solar power and solar jobs accessible to low-income communities and communities of color, is leading teams of students in installations across California, Colorado, New Mexico and Nepal from March 4 through May 10.

While solar is already providing significant economic and environmental benefits for nearly two million households nationwide, the majority of Americans face physical or financial barriers to the traditional rooftop solar.

In an op-ed for the Farmington Daily Times, GRID's national Tribal Program director Tim Willink describes how community solar access will benefit tribal communities in New Mexico.

The $2 million project will be one of the primary projects of Grid Alternatives Tribal Program, and will be funded in part through the group’s Tribal Solar Accelerator Fund, drawing on $5 million pledged by Wells Fargo Foundation last year to be used over three years, according to Tim Willink, the director of Grid Alternatives Tribal Program in Denver.