Events

Press Release: City, Non-profit Partnership Brings Solar Power and Job Training to East Baltimore

Today government officials and community leaders gathered at the home of Leonard Wills in East Baltimore’s C.A.R.E Community to kick of a project that will bring the benefits of solar power to local residents and serve as a model for improving community sustainability and resiliency citywide.

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.

GLA Hosts 2nd Annual Solar Job Fair

On Wednesday, as part of Greenbuild International Conference and Expo, the largest green building conference and expo in the world, GRID Alternatives Greater Los Angeles (GLA) held a solar job fair so employers could directly connect with many of LA’s talented and diverse solar job seekers.

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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.

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Troops to Solar Build serves Virginia Veteran

GRID Alternatives Mid-Atlantic recently hosted its first Troops to Solar build in Virginia! GRID Alternatives and HeroHomes teamed up to save money for a veteran family with equipment and system design donated by Standard Solar. The installation was completed by veteran and active duty military job trainees, as part of GRID’s Troops to Solar initiative, supported by Wells Fargo.

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Press Release - Local Veteran Gets Solar Power on His Home Through Nonprofit Partnership

GRID Alternatives and HeroHomes team up to save money for a veteran family with equipment and system design & engineering donated by Standard Solar.

Loudoun Now Army Veteran Gets Solar Home in Purcellville

Construction on Brian Haas’ new home is still underway, but the U.S. Army veteran welcomed a yard full of guests to the property today. Elected officials, business leaders and volunteers were there to celebrate the installation of a rooftop solar system by GRID Alternatives' employees and job trainees on Haas’ new three-bedroom house, built by Purcellville nonprofit HeroHomes, with solar panels donated by Standard Solar.

Students from Yonsei University in Seoul visited GRID

On August 1st, students from Yonsei University in Seoul visited the GRID NY Tri-State office in the South Bronx. Yonsei University is one of the three “Sky” universities, considered the most prestigious in South Korea.

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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.

GLA’s in Baldwin Hills!

Last month, we launched a bold canvassing pilot project aimed at reaching out to the community of Baldwin Hills to serve residents with solar and help lower their energy bills.

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