SolarQuest® was established in 1998, as an educational program of EcoSage Corporation, and was incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation in the State of California (2006). The mission of SolarQuest® is to provide project-based, experiential education and service-learning programs to schools throughout the United States and developing countries of the world utilizing renewable energy, broadband telecommunications and distance education technologies.

From 1999 to 2001, SolarQuest® worked with governments in sub-Sahara Africa and Latin America under a partnership with White House Millennium Council and various departments of the United States government, including the United States Department of Energy, the State Department and United States Agency for International Development, to pioneer service-based distance learning programs.

In May 1999, SolarQuest® co-sponsored the President's Council on Sustainable Development National Town Meeting for a Sustainable America in Detroit, Michigan. SolarQuest® provided a live web cast of the National Town Meeting events from a self-powered, mobile internet café utilizing broadband satellite, and co-sponsored 21 youth representing the Voice of American Youth for the 21st Century.

In August 1999, SolarQuest® co-sponsored a White House Millennium Council project to install 100 solar energy systems in community centers, schools, libraries and medical facilities in remote areas of Uganda and Tanzania.

In October 2000, SolarQuest® established a "deep rural" educational telecenter in Porvenir, Bolivia, in collaboration with the White House Millennium Council and American Electric Power (AEP).

In 2001, SolarQuest® participated in rural ICT programs in Honduras, Guatemala and Venezuela.

Since 2002, SolarQuest® has been developing programs in Chendebji (Bhutan) and the Province of the Galápagos (Ecuador). In collaboration with the Galápagos National Institute, SolarQuest® is supporting the development of an information services economy in the Province of the Galápagos in collaboration with the Ministry of Energy and Mines (Ecuador) and the United Nations Development Programme through the development of the proposed Renewable Energy Applications Laboratory of the Galapagos Archipelago and the Renewable Nations Consortium.