Meaningful Household Savings from Solar

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technology Office (SETO) launched the Equitable Solar Communities of Practice program to support the expansion of equitable benefits in solar adoption. DOE has identified five meaningful benefits of solar and has established five communities of practice, each focused on a different benefit. The communities of practice work to identify resource gaps, support the dissemination of best practices, and propose new resources, tools, and technical assistance needed to scale equitable solar.  The Clean Energy States Alliance (CESA) was selected to lead the community of practice on Meaningful Household Savings.  This community of practice focuses on such questions as how to define what constitutes meaningful savings, how to communicate savings, whether savings can be guaranteed, and what can be done to verify savings. In addition to savings on electricity bills, it looks at tenant benefits provided to residents of multi-family housing. CESA has worked with a core team consisting of GreenLink Analytics, Inclusive Prosperity Capital, Partnership for Southern Equity, Posigen, Stewards of Affordable Housing for the Future, and Sunwealth. In this DOE-organized webinar, CESA Executive Director Warren Leon and Senior Project Director for Solar and Offshore Wind Vero Bourg-Meyer will discuss best practices for meaningful household savings from solar, gaps in the literature on solar savings, and what will be needed to scale up best practices. Registration for this webinar and webinars on the other communities of practice are available on the DOE website.