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Press Releases
4/13/2012 - GRID Alternatives Lighting Up California Communities During Earth Week
3/7/2012 - SunPower Partners with GRID Alternatives to Supply High Efficiency Solar Panels for Low-Income Houses in 2012
2/28/2012 - Yingli Solar Renews Commitment to Families in Need
2/22/2012 - Save the Date: May 19, First Annual Inland Empire Solarthon
GRID Alternatives in the news:
5/10/2012 - AERO Academy works on 100th Home
Students from Porterville High School’s AERO — Alternative Energy Resource Occupations — Academy spent Tuesday and Wednesday installing solar panels and hanging an inverter on a local affordable-housing project with GRID Alternatives.
5/07/2012 - Solar Power A Reality for Low-Income Californians
LOS ANGELES - Solar power is becoming a reality for some of California's low-income families.
4/30/2012 - Companies Pitch in to make Madera Solarthon
Hundreds converged on a subdivision in Madera on April 21 to help nine low-income families save through solar power.
4/24/2012 - Solar Power in Madera
New homeowner Floricel Martínez, a migrant farmworker and a married mother of two, didn't have to sweat out the details of getting solar power for her three-bedroom home.
4/10/2012 - Solar Corporate Social Responsibility that Pays
On a cold, sunny day in March, a who’s who of the California solar industry lobby gathered in Sacramento for a press conference and subcommittee hearing at the state capitol. The topic of the day was net metering rates, an issue that, along with California’s current five percent net metering cap, is likely to dominate the solar policy agenda for the next couple of years.
3/29/2012 - Capturing the Sun's Rays
A partnership between a nonprofit company and a local community college district is serving to help local homeowners drastically slash their electric bills, get job seekers back to work and clean up the environment.
3/14/2012 - (solar) Power to the People
Like many environmentally-friendly products, rooftop solar power is a luxury that most Americans can’t afford: Before subsidies, it costs tens of thousands of dollars to power a typical house.* GRID Alternatives, an Oakland, CA-based nonprofit, is trying to change that–and making headway.
3/01/2012 - Solar Power in Arroyo Grande
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2/27/2012 - Qualifying homeowners can save big on solar installation
Bill Shearer has seen his monthly electric bill top $500 on occasion, but those days are just about over. On Monday, a crew of volunteers from GRID Alternatives, a nonprofit solar installer, began a two-day project to put 33 solar panels on his roof.
2/24/2012 - Redlands group touts energy efficiency
The Common Vision Coalition (CVC) has partnered with GRID Alternatives, a non-profit solar installer, to raise awareness of energy efficiency and alternative energy sources and provide a resourceful program for the community.
1/25/2012 - Program Offers Solar Solutions
Reedley Rabobank employees usually spend their days behind a desk, but last weekend, they spent them on top of a roof. The bank recently awarded a $5,000 grant to non-profit solar contractor Grid Alternatives, to bring a program to Reedley that installs solar electric systems for low income families.
