Located in Madera, California, Valle de Las Brisas is an affordable housing development of charming single-story, Spanish-inspired, terracotta-roofed apartments in the heart of California’s San Joaquin Valley. It is also home to a community of approximately 81 senior residents. Tenants at Las Brisas enjoy amenities including spacious yards, a shared community pool, and now - energy from the sun.

If we cannot breathe freely without fear of pollution, move freely without fear of violence, and live in abundance rather than scarcity, can we really celebrate freedom?

GRID Alternatives strongly condemns the ideologically driven Supreme Court decision in West Virginia v. EPA restricting the federal government’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.

Emily Corrow is the Multifamily and Commercial team’s new Project Coordinator at GRID Alternatives, after completing her 11-month fellowship as a SolarCorps intern.

The 49th training session of the Climate Reality Leadership Corps was recently held in Las Vegas. Tanksi Clairmont, Director of GRID Alternatives' Tribal Solar Accelerator Fund (TSAF), was amongst the selected speakers and panelists who highlighted the event, along with some notable celebrities including Property Brothers star Jonathan Scott and former Vice President, Al Gore. 

GRID Alternatives’ Tribal Program had the opportunity to partner with the Ojo Encino Chapter of the Navajo Nation to install around 100 kW-DC of solar energy on homes and Chapter buildings.

As AAPI Heritage Month draws to a close, we want to thank the AAPI staff at GRID Alternatives who have shared some of their stories with us this past month. We would also like to thank the Asian Pacific Environmental Network for joining us in a conversation on fighting for an environmentally just future, which you can watch here. We recognize that AAPI communities continue to face violent attacks and micro-aggressions in places of work, and want to uplift these resources: Stop AAPI Hate, Conflict De-Escalation training, Bystander Intervention training, and Responding to and Preventing Harassment training. 

In case you missed our staffs’ posts on GRID’s Instagram, we are sharing them here. 

As the clean energy industry grows, it’s critical that environmental and social justice remains at the forefront of our efforts, including continued action to integrate diversity, equity and inclusion into hiring practices and organizational culture, at all levels.

GRID's Multifamily & Commercial team returned to California's largest affordable housing conference, Housing CA. GRID was a Sustainer level sponsor of the conference, which allowed us to connect both virtually and in-person with affordable housing stakeholders.