SOMAH
California's Solar on Multifamily Affordable Housing (SOMAH) Program Benefits Property Owners, Tenants, Job Seekers, Contractors, and Housing Agencies.
This program delivers clean power and credits on energy bills to hundreds of thousands of California’s affordable housing residents.
Property Owners & Housing Agencies
Increase Your Property Value With Subsidized Financial Incentives For Solar Installations
California's SOMAH Program provides financial incentives to all qualified affordable multifamily apartment homes to aid in solar installation costs.
More than 3,500 properties across California encompassing nearly 255,000 individual households may qualify for program benefits.
FREE SOLAR JOB TRAINING
GET STARTED WITH JOB TRAINING HERE
Explore Climate and Environmental Careers In Solar:
- Project Management
- Systems Design
- PV Installations
1. Enroll into the free HeatSpring Training Academy. It's self-paced, 40 hours, and you can complete learning online here. You can also click the link below to get started today.
GET PAID Helping The Environment
GET PAID WIth HAndS-ON SOLAR Experience
Explore all your options in the field as a photovoltaic (PV) installer, project designer, or project manager.
The SOMAH Program is committed to ensuring that SOMAH job training opportunities pay wages comparable to industry salaries. SOMAH job trainees must be paid at either the contractor's entry level rate or 1.4x the city minimum wage, whichever is higher. If the city and the county have no mandated minimum wage, the California state minimum wage should be applied.
TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE SOMAH PAID TRAINING PROGRAM YOU MUST MEET ONE OF THE CRITERIA LISTED BELOW.
- Currently enrolled in an eligible job training program here or enrolling in SOMAH's Heat Spring Academy.
- Graduated from an eligible job training program within 12 months of starting your first SOMAH Job training opportunity.
- Live at a SOMAH Program Property.
Click the link below and get started today!
