Update May 2023 – Good Energy Solutions has chosen to award The Willow Domestic Violence Center a free solar panel system for their main office in Lawrence, Kansas. We will post updates on social media and our website as the project progresses.

Douglas County continues to weather another turbulent year for 2022, with budget cuts for several local nonprofits, rising demand for public services and difficulties for many of our neighbors in the community to make ends meet. As a small business that appreciates all of the support we’ve received from everyone in the Lawrence area, Good Energy Solutions wants to give back.  We need your help to find a deserving nonprofit in the community as we aim to give away a solar energy system.

By installing a new solar energy system, we can lower a nonprofit organization’s electric bill, so they can use more of their money to help others, and give less to the utility company.

Since 2017 Good Energy Solutions has given away 3 solar energy projects:

• Van Go, an arts-based social service agency aimed at youth 14-24.
• Sunrise Project, an organization that provides space and opportunities for people of all ages and backgrounds to build an equitable community through education, good food, and social connection.
• Ballard Center, an organization that provides rent and utility assistance, a food and clothing pantry, affordable pre-K childcare, and other needs-based services to the families of our children and others in the community who are in need.

After the announcement of our gift to Sunrise Project, an anonymous community member donated a solar energy system to Just Food, a food pantry that serves 150-300 families a day.

If your nonprofit is interested in earning a free solar energy system, please fill out the application below by December 31, 2022. If you have submitted an entry in prior years, please resubmit for 2023. Considerations of property, building structure, and shading are all important factors that help determine the optimal beneficiary of the solar giveaway. Follow us on Facebook @GoodEnergySolutions and look for the Good Energy Solutions announcement of the selected organization in January of 2023.

Thank you to all of the nonprofits and volunteers in our community who help to make Lawrence a great place to live.