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Where GRID’s work in clean energy comes to life.

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  • Equity & Community

    Jerry Mel Mayuga

    Mr. and Mrs. Mayuga have faced a number of challenges in the past few years - first, Mr. Mayuga lost his high paying job, and their family...

  • Organizational Stories

    Alex Mitroff

    Alex Mitroff has always been interested in renewable energy, but didn’t know in what capacity he would be choose to get involved. In...

  • Organizational Stories

    Ryland Parry

    Ryland Parry originally moved to the Bay Area to work at a cleantech startup, a venture which didn’t end up panning out. By the time the...

  • Organizational Stories

    Kim Pham

    Kim Pham is a former Naval Nuclear Officer. She was in the Navy for five and a half years, and studied nuclear engineering at UC Berkeley....

  • Equity & Community

    Bobby and Sue Ann Chan

    Bobby Chan fled Vietnam in 1978, headed by boat to Malaysia on a journey that took 28 days. More than 35 years later, he now lives in...

  • Seven people holding a GRID Alternatives Inland Empire banner in a residential backyard Equity & Community

    Families Like Us

    We are eternally grateful to GRID Alternatives and its staff. Families like us would never have been able to afford solar panels if not for...

  • Equity & Community

    Maria Ramos

    Maria and her husband are farm workers. They travel to Washington each summer with their three children for work, and have to rent a home...

  • Solar installation team holding banner for Lifestyle Solar in front of residential home Equity & Community

    Maria Enriquez

    Maria and Vincente Enriquez have four children they support with her job in agriculture and his in construction. Cooling bills in the...

  • Lawrence Jackson sits on his roof, leaning on his solar panels Equity & Community

    Lawrence Jackson

    Lawrence Jackson worked with GRID Alternatives to install solar panels on his home, not just to lower his bills but also "to help the...

  • Man in blue patterned shirt and cap at GRID International event Equity & Community

    Elmer Rankin

    Elmer Rankin is a seventy-year-old Navy Veteran who served on a Nuclear Submarine from 1958 to 1962. He has lived in Sun City, California...

  • Organizational Stories

    Jasmine Lomax

    Jasmine Lomax first volunteered with GRID Alternatives in the summer of 2010. She had just finished high school and knew she has an...

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