Mission Statement
Solar One is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization whose mission is to design and deliver innovative education, training, and technical assistance that fosters sustainability and resiliency in diverse urban environments. We facilitate learning that changes the way people think about energy, sustainability, and resilience by engaging diverse program participants. Our programs help individuals and communities explore new ways of living and working that are more adaptive to a climate-change impacted world. The official IRS 501c3 designation is CEC Stuyvesant Cove, Inc.
DEI Statement
Solar One is a dedicated group of people who care about diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, sustainability and resiliency. We come together to design and deliver innovative and equity-centered education, training, and technical assistance that seeks to change the way people think about energy, the environment and our impact on the earth.
Publications and Media
Program Overviews
Please enjoy and download fact sheets about Solar One’s programs.
- Green Workforce Program
- Here Comes Solar – How Solar Works
- Here Comes Solar – Reduce Operating Costs with Solar
- Green Design Lab – Environmental STEM Programs
- Green Design Lab – Educating Youth to Combat the Climate Crisis 1
- Green Design Lab – Educating Youth to Combat the Climate Crisis 2
- Stuyvesant Cove Park
- Clean Energy Communities
- Newark Programming
- All Programs Combined
Program Reports
Please enjoy and download program reports which capture highlights of Solar One’s work across our years of service to NYC’s communities.
Financials
Solar One shares our latest 990 financial filings.
Press Releases
- Solar One, Celebrating 20 Years of Climate Action, Announces Promotions and Leadership Expansion – May 2024
- Solar One Hosts Open-Air Green Careers Job Fair – April 2024
- Newark High School Students to Showcase Mobile Solar Chargers, Highlighting Community Resilience – April 2024
- NYC Clean Energy Advocates Host Rooftop Rally to Support Affordable Solar – March 2024
- Solar One and KC3 comment regarding Solar + Storage for Low-Income and Disadvantaged Communities – February 2024
- Solar One Elevates Board Leadership with New Appointments and Distinguished Members – February 2024
- Clean Energy Nonprofit Announces Six New Board Appointees – December 2023
- Solar One Welcomes New Board Member David Ehrenberg – October 2023
- Clean Energy Nonprofit Powers Up with Three New Board Appointees – March 2023
- NYCEDC and Solar One Break Ground on Solar One Environmental Education Center
- Nonprofits Partner to Bring Solar Power and Utility Bill Savings to Brooklyn Homeowners – March 2022
- NYC Affordable Solar Energy for Public Housing Project Wins National Award from Uncle Sam – January 2022
- Solar-Powered Resiliency the Focus of a New $500,000 Climate Initiative to Reach 800 Newark High School Students with Hands-On Training – January 2022
- NYC Nonprofit Solar One Appoints Two New Members to the Board of Directors – January 2022
- Solar One Announces New CEO – January 2022
- Solar One Selected by the Citi Foundation’s Community Progress Makers Initiative to Advance Social and Economic Opportunity in New York City – December 2021
- Solar One Announces Promotion of Elissa Knight to Director, Clean Energy Communities Program, a Partnership with NYSERDA and the City of New York – November 2021
- Fifth Avenue Committee Introduces Barrio Solar Pilot Program – September 2021
- Due To Covid-19, Twenty Goats Will Soon Be Eating Lower Manhattan
- Solar One’s Green Design Lab Helps NYC STEM Teachers Transition to Virtual Learning During the Pandemic – May 2020
- PowerMarket Launches Clean Energy Partnership with Solar One – February 2020
- Transitioning to Solar Power with Green Jobs in Harlem
- Constellation, PGA of America Encourage Energy Conservation Pledges From Golf Fans at PGA Championship – May 2019
- An Innovative Solar One Program Empowers Vulnerable Communities with Resilient Solar + Storage – November 2019
- WE ACT Solar Uptown Now Brings Renewable Energy & Jobs to Northern Manhattan – December 2018
In the News
- Energy Advocates Rally to Improve Solar Affordability (Brooklyn Reader, March 12, 2024)
- Updated Tax Credit Would Help Low-Income Homeowners Afford Solar Panels, Environmentalists Say (City Limits, March 11, 2024)
- New York Bill Would Expand Residential Solar Tax Credit To $10,000 (Forbes, March 10, 2024)
- Stephen Levin on WNYC (WNYC 1010Wins, March 7, 2024)
- Proposed New York bill doubles residential solar tax credit to $10,000 (PV Magazine, March 6, 2024)
- NY’s Clean Slate Act is Good for the Green Economy (NY Daily News)
- How New York City Is Turning Its Thousands of Roofs Into Power Providers (New York Times)
- Solar One details new resiliency-focused New York solar projects (Solar Builder)
- “The Green New Deal In Real Life” — Nonprofits WE ACT For Environmental Justice & Solar One Create Jobs With Those Reflective Beauties (Solar Panels) (Clean Technica)
- New York City nonprofits lead the way to solar power and green jobs for low-income communities (Solar Power World)
- Students at South Jamaica’s August Martin High take part in summer jobs that double as STEM experience (The Queens Courier)
- Paving the Path to Green Careers in NYC (Green Schools Catalyst Quarterly)
- An Affordable Harlem Co-op Makes History (Habitat)
- Solar panels bring green energy, cost savings to upper Manhattan (AMNY)
- S.U.N. celebrates the sun (New York Amsterdam News)
- This co-op solar project will be owned by the community members it benefits (Fast Company)
- Brooklyn Army Terminal to open first co-op owned solar garden in New York (Brooklyn Daily Eagle)