Grow Solar St. Louis — Affordable Solar for All
Grow Solar St. Louis is a public education and group purchasing program for residential and commercial solar. Offered by the Missouri Botanical Garden, Washington University in St. Louis, and the Midwest Renewable Energy Association, property owners throughout the City of St. Louis, St. Louis County, and St. Charles County may participate in this program to help pool their buying power to secure significant discounts that make installing solar more affordable.
Live across the River? Check out Grow Solar Metro East!
Stay Tuned — Grow Solar St. Louis Will Return
After another successful program in 2021, Grow Solar St. Louis will be relaunching in 2023. Interested in joining the program once it begins? Fill out our short form below to stay in the loop and be the first to hear the details of our next solar group buy!
Do you represent an organization or municipality looking to further its sustainability goals? Become a local partner of our next program and bring affordable solar to your community!
Contact our local program partner Katherine Golden at the Missouri Botanical Garden to get details on how your organization can support our next solar group buy program.
Become an Installer
Interested in being considered as an installer for Grow Solar? Click the button below to sign up for the Request for Proposals newsletter.
Want more information about this program? Learn about the MREA’s history of facilitating these programs, and the success this program has previously experienced on our About page.
One Program, Big Impact
Since 2019…
1,161 people attended Solar Power Hours
170 properties added solar
1,118 kilowatts of solar have been installed
Every year, that’s like avoiding:
2,539,078 miles driven by the average passenger vehicle
1,116,665 lbs. of coal burned
OR like 42,988 trash bags recycled rather than landfilled
Grow Solar St. Louis in the News
Realtime Real Estate – Community – Residential Solar Power – 07/23/2021
FOX 2 Now – Grow Solar St. Louis explains benefits of adding solar panels to homes – 07/09/2021
Yale Climate Connections – Missouri Botanical Garden helps local residents go solar – 05/08/2020
Washington University in St. Louis – Sustainability doesn’t stop – 04/22/2020
Earthworms Podcast with Jean Ponzi – Grow Solar is Charging up Metro St. Louis, MO and IL – 08/28/19