We're Celebrating Our 1000th Solar Installation!

We're Celebrating Our 1000th Solar Installation!

GRID Alternatives completed its 1000th installation at the home of Celia Juarez with LA CAUSA YouthBuild volunteers. “I really appreciate this solar power system and how the savings will help me,” Celia said.

Yingli Now Official Solar Module Provider

Yingli Now Official Solar Module Provider

Partnership Marks the Largest Module Donation to GRID Alternatives in our History and Will Generate $10 Million in Energy Savings for Working Families, While Training Thousands of Workers in PV Installation

Single-family Affordable Solar Homes (SASH) Program

Single-family Affordable Solar Homes (SASH) Program

GRID Alternatives aims to install up to 7,000 solar electric systems on the roofs of qualified low-income families through 2016.

"It all comes together like a beautiful puzzle"

"It all comes together like a beautiful puzzle"

Lawrence Jackson, an eighty year-old resident of San Francisco's Bayview/Hunter's Point, went from being a GRID Alternatives client to being a GRID Alternatives volunteer working on his neighbors' homes.

A "classroom in the field" for solar installation

A "classroom in the field" for solar installation

GRID Alternatives works with dozens of workforce development organizations throughout California to help job trainees enter the green economy and gain critical hands-on experience in solar installation. 

Impact Calculator

1,645

homes solarized

4.5 MW

total capacity

$42 million

for families

142,182

tons of CO2 saved

8,199

volunteers trained

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