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  • Man speaking at podium with GRID logo at Solarthon event with sponsor banners behind him Organizational Stories

    Larry Hoang, Lifestyle Solar

    Larry Hoang emigrated from Vietnam to the US with his family in 1980. After working at a furniture store in San Jose, Larry discovered that...

  • Equity & Community

    Jerry Mel Mayuga

    Mr. and Mrs. Mayuga have faced a number of challenges in the past few years - first, Mr. Mayuga lost his high paying job, and their family...

  • Organizational Stories

    Alex Mitroff

    Alex Mitroff has always been interested in renewable energy, but didn’t know in what capacity he would be choose to get involved. In...

  • Organizational Stories

    Ryland Parry

    Ryland Parry originally moved to the Bay Area to work at a cleantech startup, a venture which didn’t end up panning out. By the time the...

  • Organizational Stories

    Kim Pham

    Kim Pham is a former Naval Nuclear Officer. She was in the Navy for five and a half years, and studied nuclear engineering at UC Berkeley....

  • Equity & Community

    Bobby and Sue Ann Chan

    Bobby Chan fled Vietnam in 1978, headed by boat to Malaysia on a journey that took 28 days. More than 35 years later, he now lives in...

  • Seven people holding a GRID Alternatives Inland Empire banner in a residential backyard Equity & Community

    Families Like Us

    We are eternally grateful to GRID Alternatives and its staff. Families like us would never have been able to afford solar panels if not for...

  • Equity & Community

    Maria Ramos

    Maria and her husband are farm workers. They travel to Washington each summer with their three children for work, and have to rent a home...

  • Solar installation team holding banner for Lifestyle Solar in front of residential home Equity & Community

    Maria Enriquez

    Maria and Vincente Enriquez have four children they support with her job in agriculture and his in construction. Cooling bills in the...

  • Lawrence Jackson sits on his roof, leaning on his solar panels Equity & Community

    Lawrence Jackson

    Lawrence Jackson worked with GRID Alternatives to install solar panels on his home, not just to lower his bills but also "to help the...

  • Organizational Stories

    Jasmine Lomax

    Jasmine Lomax first volunteered with GRID Alternatives in the summer of 2010. She had just finished high school and knew she has an...

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