March 10, 2019

Solar lets everyone benefit from New Mexico’s sunshine

Author: Tom Willink

(Photo: COURTESY EL PASO ELECTRIC)
When GRID Alternatives was established in 2002, our founders led with a simple vision: clean, affordable electricity from the sun should be available to everyone. Since then, our nonprofit model has provided job training and installed more than 48 megawatts of solar benefiting communities who don’t have access to solar PV across the country, including here in New Mexico.
While solar is already providing significant economic and environmental benefits for nearly