Sponsors

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.

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.

Solarthon 2012 a blazing success!
At 90-plus degrees, Saturday was a sweaty day for the third annual GRID Alternatives Central Valley Solarthon, but for the families of Parksdale, it was a happy one. Thanks to the hard work of over 100 individual sponsors, corporate employee volunteers, job trainees and the homeowners themselves, the families’ electrical meters will be running backward this summer, not forward, saving them thousands of dollars during what is usually a season of high bills.