Policy & Advocacy

Ensuring Access in California

  • October 21, 2014
Child in green solar shirt and yellow hard hat standing before solar panel with "Solar Champions" poster

IN 2013, GRID ALTERNATIVES led a successful effort to ensure continued access to solar energy for low-income families in California through the passage of AB217. The Equitable Access to Solar Energy Act extends the state’s groundbreaking low-income solar programs for both single- and multi-family housing until 2021, bringing $106 million in new public funding to support solar power and solar job training in communities that need it most.