The country’s largest non-profit solar installation organization, GRID Alternatives, recently announced that it will be expanding into the international market, via the acquisition of another non-profit, Power to the People. The expansion will allow GRID Alternatives to bring its off-grid-solar-for-the-poor programs to Latin America, and perhaps beyond as well. The … [continued]
Originally published on Climate Progress. by Katie Valentine Rick Lopez said he felt like he’d won the lottery. Lopez, a 63-year-old Vietnam veteran and Denver, CO resident, had a 3-kilowatt solar system installed on his house by a group of volunteers on Wednesday, completely free of charge. The project was … [continued]
By Erica Mackie, CEO and co-founder of GRID Alternatives For Doris Magante, a retired grandmother and Native American elder, summer has been a season to dread. Hot temperatures on the La Jolla Indian Reservation in northeast San Diego county send her electricity bill soaring as high as $400 a month, forcing … [continued]
They aren’t new programs, but they are programs that were approaching a red light, one that we weren’t sure was going to turn. Luckily, the light has just turned green. But there’s one more light ahead — the California Senate light. If the a bill makes it through the California … [continued]
This article has been reposted from the website of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with minor adjustments: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Regional Administrator Jared Blumenfeld this week recognized nonprofit GRID Alternatives as a Climate Change Champion. The EPA Pacific Southwest Region’s Environmental Award was presented at a ceremony hosted by … [continued]
Sullivan Solar Power is one of California’s largest solar power companies, and it recently launched the Chula Vista Solar Program, which not only resulted in 204,412 watts of solar power deployed in the city, but also provided 29 solar panels to three low-income houses in the city. The Chula … [continued]
SunPower, a leading manufacturer of high-efficiency solar cells, solar panels, and solar systems based in Silicon Valley, and GRID Alternatives, a non-profit solar installer in the Bay Area, have teamed up to put SunPower’s high-efficiency solar panel rooftop system on low-income homes in San Francisco. “Under terms of the … [continued]
Where is the grid going, big or small?
