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Forty-five women from around the country joined together earlier this month to help build the Coyote Ridge Solar Array at GRID Colorado\u2019s annual We Build Retreat, a weekend of service learning and networking for women in solar and related careers. The project the women worked on is the nation\u2019s largest low-income community solar array. Over half of the 1.95 megawatt array will serve low-income qualified households, affordable housing, and mission-aligned nonprofits. We Build\u2019s participants came together to build with their hands, but also build a framework for women to thrive in the renewable energy industry.<\/p>\n

The retreat was meant to kick off with a campfire, but a sudden thunderstorm interfered. Instead, the inventive group rigged up a shelter out of tarps, and spent Friday evening getting to know each other under unusually close conditions.<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s work started bright and early as we traveled to the Coyote Ridge Solar Array to learn about the site and project development. The group made short work of the day\u2019s task, assembling and installing more than 40 percent of the project\u2019s actuator, drive post, and idler post brackets.<\/p>\n

Click here for more photos.<\/a><\/p>\n

For Vicky Mandell, Board President of GRID Colorado, We Build was a special example of GRID\u2019s mission in action. Vicky told the group how the support of women had provided her opportunities to grow throughout her career. \u201cGRID wants women to succeed in the solar industry,\u201d said Vicky. \u201cWe Build provides a forum for women to build together, and to learn and practice how supporting women\u2019s work is a virtuous circle that advances opportunities for all women.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gillian Weaver, of the Colorado Energy Office, was one of those women. \u201cIt was a valuable opportunity to meet women contributing to projects related to [my] work and connect with them over the experience of building a community solar array,\u201d she said. It was her first time installing solar with GRID, but hopefully not the last! <\/p>\n

\"Gillian<\/p>\n

Laura Galavis, the Assistant Project Manager for GRID\u2019s San Diego office, participated as a panel speaker at the We Build Retreat. During the panel discussion, she shared why it is so important to her to see women taking on construction jobs. Laura was born in Venezuela and studied to be a mechanical engineer. She found GRID online, and that\u2019s when her career in solar started. \u201cI love seeing the project from beginning to end, and you get that in construction. I\u2019m not an office person, I like the field,\u201d she said. \u201dOne of the things I like about GRID is that there are a lot of women in construction.\u201d Laura found it so powerful to be with the women of We Build Retreat, she brought her intern Erica to the event as well, to show her \u201cthere are plenty of women like you\u2026 who have common goals and who are fueled by similar passions.\u201d <\/p>\n

Learn more about GRID\u2019s Women in Solar Program.<\/a><\/p>\n

With many thanks to our facilitator, Pam Cargill, and our sponsors:<\/p>\n

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