Past Year Schools

The 2020 Solar+ Schools Grant Recipients have been announced!

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NC GreenPower is pleased to award 10 North Carolina schools each with a grant worth up to $27,000 for the installation of an educational solar photovoltaic (PV) array. Each school will also receive approximately $14,000 in related benefits that include donated SunPower solar modules, a STEM curriculum and teacher training. This is the first time that NC GreenPower is expanding its Solar+ Schools program to 10 schools — each of the previous five years awarded a maximum of five.

The new schools join 32 other grant recipients since the program launched in 2015. The 10 schools that accepted the grant are:

Questions should be emailed to solarschools@ncgreenpower.org.Submitted questions and answers regarding our Solar+ Schools program can be found here in our FAQ section. Need help convincing your school? Download this “Why your school should apply” document for some great reasons.

[THE 2020 APPLICATION IS CLOSED] The 2020 application information and preview question documents are available at the links below. The application will be available starting January 2, 2020. NC GreenPower estimates that there will be funding for five to ten school grants for this year’s program. The total number of awards will be dependent on donations made to the program. NC GreenPower’s grant will pay for a portion of the project’s construction cost, up to a maximum of $14,000. School fundraising goals will be fixed, based on a scaled model, and will range from $6,000 – $12,000. To estimate your school’s fundraising goal, download this Excel file. Applications for the 2021 year will be accepted starting January 2, 2021.


2019 Schools

We are pleased to award five more North Carolina schools each with a grant worth up to $10,000 for the installation of an educational solar photovoltaic (PV) array on the campus of their school. They join 19 other grant recipients since the pilot program launched in 2015.

The five selected schools for our 2019 year are:

* Applications are no longer being accepted for the 2019 Solar Schools pilot. Questions should be emailed to solarschools@ncgreenpower.org.


2018 Schools

The NC GreenPower Board of Directors’ review committee selected the following schools for 2018:

* Applications are no longer being accepted for the 2018 Solar Schools pilot. Questions should be emailed to solarschools@ncgreenpower.org.

Huge thanks to the State Employees Credit Union Foundation for their matching challenge grant of $10,000 for each of our 2015 pilot schools!

We are pleased to announce that solar schools awarded in the first year of the pilot have successfully raised their funds for a 5 kW solar PV array to be installed at their school! All 2015 NC GreenPower solar schools have received their $10,000 grant from NC GreenPower and a matching challenge grant of $10,000 from the State Employees Credit Union (SECU) Foundation.

We want to thank all the donors who contributed money to the schools through our fundraising website or by other means.

The four selected schools for 2015 are:

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