Environmental Justice

Press Release: EPA's McCarthy, HUD's Castro, White House Officials Spotlight Solar Power for Low-Income Families

GRID Alternatives expands national low-income solar energy program to mid-Atlantic region, raises important policy issues on access to solar power and jobs. 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.

Baltimore Fishbowl - GRID Alternatives Brings Solar to Baltimore’s Underserved One Panel at a Time

Genevieve Fenwick lives in a classic row home in Baltimore’s Belair-Edison neighborhood. Living on a fixed income, Fenwick said, “I’m the last person on earth you’d expect to have 12 solar panels powering my row home.” But thanks to GRID Alternatives, a nonprofit bringing renewable energy to underserved communities, the solar panels on Fenwick’s roof will soon be turning sunlight into electricity. 

Volunteer Gives Back by Biking Across the Country
The number one GRID volunteer stopped by our office last week. Well, all of our GRID volunteers are number one in our minds, but Michael Johnson-Chase is a remarkable, determined GRID Alternatives volunteer. For the past six months, Michael has been biking to each of the GRID regional offices, riding between 60 to 100 miles a day. He has been biking with the Climate Ride Independent Cycling Challenge to raise money for GRID.

DCSEU Affordable Solar Program 2016 Wraps Up
Across the District of Columbia, 42 families are now benefiting from the financial savings that solar power provides, thanks to a partnership between GRID Alternatives and The DC Sustainable Energy Utility (DCSEU). GRID Alternatives Mid-Atlantic just finished up these solar installations in DC this summer through DCSEU’s Affordable Solar Program. GRID was chosen to be one of the program’s primary solar installers. The DCSEU’s Affordable Solar Program just completed its fifth year, and has already begun work on next year’s projects.
Enphase Partnership

The future of energy

GRID co-founder Erica Mackie is featured in three videos from our longtime partner Enphase Energy to celebrate 10 years of innovation. The three part series looks at the growth of solar in the past decade, the inflection point we are at today, and the future we envision.

East of the River DC News Celebrating a Milestone in Anacostia

As the cost of solar technology continues to drop, more Americans – and DC residents – are opting to install rooftop solar panels to defray electricity costs and green their homes. Ashley David, a DC teenager, urged her family to install solar photovoltaic (PV) panels on their Northeast DC home, and in May the David home became the symbolic one millionth solar installation in the US.