PV Squared Honored for Positive Impact on Employees and World

GREENFIELD — PV Squared, a local solar company based in Greenfield, was recognized for creating the most positive impact for its workers and the world, based on an independent, comprehensive assessment administered by the nonprofit B Lab.

PV Squared is honored in the Best for Workers and Best for the World lists. The assessments measure a company’s impact on its workers, community, customers, and the environment.

The Best for Workers designation assesses the company’s relationship with its workforce and how it treats its workers through compensation, benefits, training, and ownership opportunities. The category also focuses on the overall work environment within the company by assessing management/worker communication, job flexibility, corporate culture, and worker health and safety practices. PV Squared made the list because it is a worker-owned cooperative that implements a collaborative and transparent decision-making process, and has created a safe environment for workers to share their ideas and beliefs.

“With the rise of anger at a system that feels rigged, people are hungry for companies like PV Squared, who are changing the system by building businesses that seek to create the greatest positive impact,” said Jay Coen Gilbert, co-founder of B Lab. “Best for the World is the only list of businesses that uses comprehensive, comparable, third-party-validated data about a company’s social and environmental performance. As consumers, talent, and investors increasingly demand transparent, values-aligned businesses to buy from, work at, and invest in, companies will need to not just be the best in the world but the best for the world. Not just to be nice — but to be the most successful.”

Of PV Squared’s 44 employees, 24 are worker-owners. The company has provided renewable-energy solutions to residential and commercial clients in the Pioneer Valley and surrounding regions since 2002.