Webinar & Events - Finance

Utility-Driven Solar Projects for Low-Income Customers

June 8, 2017

Some utilities have begun developing solar projects specifically to serve low-income customers and underrepresented neighborhoods. This webinar features two utility pilot projects that are installing solar panels on rooftops in low-income neighborhoods.

Community Solar for Low- and Moderate-Income Consumers

June 1, 2017

Because community solar can be made accessible to renters and can include flexible terms, it holds promise for spreading the benefits of solar to low- and moderate-income (LMI) consumers. In this webinar, guest speakers from Solstice and from Alpine Bank presented two financially sustainable models for making community solar more available to LMI consumers.

Crowd-Financing Solar for Nonprofits Serving Low-Income Communities

May 25, 2017

In this webinar, Andreas Karelas, the Executive Director of RE-volv, and Todd Bluechel, the Vice President of Marketing and Sales at CollectiveSun, presented two models that rely on crowd-funding to enable nonprofits to adopt solar.

Bringing the Benefits of Solar to Low-Income Customers

May 18, 2017

CESA has produced a guide for state and municipal officials on bringing the benefits of solar to low-income consumers. In this webinar, report author Ben Paulos (PaulosAnalysis) provided an overview and addressed questions from the audience.

The Value Proposition for Energy Storage at the Sterling Municipal Light Department

April 27, 2017

This webinar highlighted the economic case for the 2 MW battery storage project in Sterling, MA. Guest speakers from Sandia National Labs, Sterling Municipal Light Department and the US Department of Energy presented.

The Solar Massachusetts Renewable Target (SMART) Program

April 12, 2017

The Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) is in the process of implementing a new solar incentive program designed to maintain robust growth in the number of solar installations while reducing costs for ratepayers. Learn more about this program in a webinar presentation featuring Kaitlin Kelly, RPS Program Coordinator at DOER.

Tools for Building More Resilient Communities with Solar+Storage

April 6, 2017

In this webinar, Clean Energy Group’s project director Seth Mullendore and senior finance director Rob Sanders provided an introduction to the concept of resilient power, and introduced Clean Energy Group’s new Resilient Power Toolkits. These toolkits are a good starting point for anyone interested in developing a resilient solar+storage project in their community.

Low-Income Solar, Part 2: Using the Tools of Low-Income Energy Efficiency Financing

March 30, 2017

In this webinar presented by CESA’s Sustainable Solar Education Project, Greg Leventis from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory reviewed low-income energy efficiency financing products and discussed how different financing products can address different barriers to low-income energy improvements.

Designing Publicly Supported Solar Loan Programs

January 12, 2017

This webinar overviews CESA’s new best practices guidebook on designing publicly supported residential solar loan programs. NREL’s Travis Lowder and CT Green Bank’s Ben Healey presented.

DOE’s Solar in Your Community Challenge

January 10, 2017

This webinar provided an overview of the Solar in Your Community Challenge, a DOE-sponsored contest to support innovative and replicable community-based solar business models and programs that will bring solar to underserved communities.