In a new interview for The Weather Channel, co-founder and CEO Erica Mackie talks about the benefits of community solar.

GRID was recognized by the 2019 Dive Awards for our Solar Futures program. By partnering with tribal communities and schools serving native students, GRID is supporting learning in science, technology, engineering and math and introducing students who face significant barriers to opportunities in the growing solar industry. 

Solar presents a huge opportunity for Native American tribes in the Southwest — but growth is contingent on the right combo of federal, state and tribal solar policy and funding.

Workplace demographic studies are critical for the solar industry if it wants to reflect the communities it serves, writes GRID CEO Erica Mackie in an op-ed for Greentech Media.

This written piece, accompanied by photos, highlights the partnership between the Ute Mountain Ute tribe and GRID Alternatives Colorado. which is helping the tribe move towards energy sovereignty with a large-scale solar array project. The project includes 3,500 solar panels that will offset about 1,515 tons of greenhouse gas emissions by year one.

Stigma around people who were incarcerated within the solar industry — and society broadly — creates a major barrier to employment, according to Adewale OgunBadejo, Workforce Development Manager with GRID Greater Los Angeles. This piece highlights our work in Greater L.A. to provide hands-on solar training for people returning from prison, as well as the wider effort to hire more people with justice records in the solar industry.

On the outer skirts of Los Angeles County, solar power is generating the growth of green jobs for formerly incarcerated individuals. A partnership between Homeboy Industries and GRID Alternatives offers training that helps people pivot into solar careers, while promoting environmental justice and transitioning underserved communities into cleaner energy.  Follow GRID Greater Los Angeles staff and the Uriarte family in the KCET docuseries Earth Focus.

Washington D.C. Mayor Bowser joined GRID Alternatives Mid-Atlantic to celebrate the 100th rooftop solar installation under the Solar Works D.C. initiative, a clean energy and job training program targeting low- and moderate-income residents.