GRID Alternatives Completes Largest Solar Deployment for Affordable Homes
City officials, homeowners and other partners and dignitaries joined GRID Alternatives, the nation’s largest non-profit solar installer, to celebrate the installation of solar electric systems on 84 homes in a single affordable housing community. The project, in Palm Desert’s Desert Rose community, represents the largest ever solar deployment through California’s Single-Family Affordable Solar Homes program (SASH), which GRID Alternatives manages on behalf of the CPUC.
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About GRID Alternatives
GRID Alternatives is an international, U.S.-based 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that builds community-powered solutions to advance economic and environmental justice through renewable energy. GRID works in the U.S., Mexico, Nepal, and Nicaragua and has installed solar photovoltaic systems on more than 29,500 homes and affordable housing developments in underserved communities while providing more than 33,200 individuals with workforce development training. GRID also provides clean mobility solutions and battery storage and is a leading voice in low-income solar policy development in the U.S. Installation Basics Training (IBT), a competency-based certificate program designed to develop the skills most relevant to entry-level solar installation jobs and related construction employment fields. Trainees learn solar installation skills, OSHA 10 safety standards, first aid and CPR, and soft skills, including interpersonal communication and dependability, to help job trainees obtain and sustain employment.
