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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!

How to Participate

Start by attending a virtual Solar Power Hour. Our free virtual information session teaches you the basics of solar, its financial implications for your property, and how the Grow Solar St. Louis program works.

Then, get a free, no obligation site assessment from our competitively-selected installer, StraightUp Solar.

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!

SIGN UP FOR UPDATES

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.

Become an Installer

Did you miss our Solar Power Hours? Though our live events are finished for the 2020 year, you can still watch a recorded version to learn the basics of solar, its financial implications for your property, and how the Grow Solar St. Louis program works. Check out our virtual resource packet for resources complimentary to this presentation. Then, get a free, no obligation site assessment from our competitively-selected installer, StraightUp Solar, by filling out this short form. The deadline to participate in this program is September 30th, so don’t delay.  Your solar journey awaits!

WATCH NOW

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.

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Upcoming Solar Power Hours & Events

Free and open to the public

October

Stay tuned for more Solar Power Hours to be scheduled this month!

Interested in becoming a co-host? Email for more information 

CAN’T MAKE IT TO A SOLAR POWER HOUR?

You can still watch a recorded version to learn the basics of solar, its financial implications for your property, and how the Grow Solar St. Louis program works. Check out our virtual resource packet for resources complimentary to this presentation. Then, get a free, no obligation site assessment from our competitively-selected installer, StraightUp Solar, by filling out this short form. The deadline to participate in this program is September 30th, so don’t delay.  Your solar journey awaits!

Want more information about this program? Learn about the MREA’s history of facilitating these programs, the success this program has previously experienced, and a biography for this program’s installer, StraightUp Solar, on our About page.

LEARN MORE

Ready to schedule a site assessment or wanting to receive important program updates? Fill out this short form to either request a free, no obligation site assessment with StraightUp Solar, receive important program updates directly to your inbox, or both.

SCHEDULE/RECEIVE UPDATES

Help spread the word! The only way this program is successful is through community- led outreach. Please considering sharing with your networks because the more people who go solar through the program, the lower the price for all.

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Grow Solar STL’s very own Jenn DeRose has taken the solar plunge! Hear how the program gave her the knowledge she needed to decide that solar was right for her home.

“I’m putting equity into my home and into my personal energy production. We see solar as a great investment into our home and for the planet.” – Jenn DeRose, 2021 Grow Solar St. Louis Participant

One Program, Big Impact

Since 2019…

2021 marks the third year for the Grow Solar St. Louis program. Since 2019, the environmental impact has been huge. Each year, the PV systems installed through the programs will singlehandedly avoid greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 1,770,174 lbs. of CO2. That is about the same weight of 590 adult rhinos!

Grow Solar St. Louis Events

Still on the fence about solar?

Got some burning questions you’re just not quite sure about?

Join us for a special event on Wednesday, September 16 from 6:00-7:00 p.m.: “Everything you want to know about solar but are too afraid to ask!” We will celebrate the program’s successes, talk about why now is a great time to go solar, and hear from solar owners and experts alike!

REGISTER NOW
Already attended a Solar Power Hour? Schedule your free, no obligation site assessment with StraightUp Solar right now!

SCHEDULE
Want to help get the word about Grow Solar St. Louis out? Check out our media kit!

SPREAD THE WORD

Ready to schedule a site assessment or wanting to receive important program updates? Fill out this short form to either request a free, no obligation site assessment with StraightUp Solar, receive important program updates directly to your inbox, or both.

SCHEDULE/RECEIVE UPDATES

Need more information about this program? Learn about the MREA’s history of facilitating these programs, the success this program has previously experienced, and a biography for this program’s installer, StraightUp Solar, on our About page.

LEARN MORE

Want to see more solar in the St. Louis area? Help us get the word out about the Grow Solar St.Louis program! Check out our media kit for easily shareable social media and email language and graphics. Thanks for helping grow solar!

SPREAD THE WORD

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

Grow Solar St. Louis explains benefits of adding solar panels to homes

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

St. Louis Magazine – Residential solar panels aren’t cheap. Here’s why one University City retiree decided to go for it – 03/02/2021

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

St. Louis NPR – Botanical’s Garden New Solar Program Brings Green Power to Homes, Businesses – 10/07/2019

Earthworms Podcast with Jean Ponzi – Grow Solar is Charging up Metro St. Louis, MO and IL – 08/28/19

Become one of the many smiling faces of Grow Solar St. Louis!

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