Blog Archive - Scaling-Up Solar for Under-Resourced Communities
“Solar for All” Applications Forecast Bipartisan Support for and Monumental Expansion of Low-Income Solar Market
“I have not pulled all-nighters like this since college!” is not something you hear every day from state energy officials. And yet, it reflects the excitement felt across the country in states both red and blue since last summer when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched the $7 billion Solar for All competition, a…
Helping States Meet the Solar for All Challenge
The federal Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has created the best ever opportunity to bring the advantages of solar to low-income households and disadvantaged communities. Up to now, residential and community solar installations have been financed and developed in ways that make it easy for households with above-average incomes to participate and benefit, but often leave…
Solar for Manufactured Homes: The Next Frontier for Energy Equity
There is a growing movement in the clean energy field to bring the benefits of renewable energy to low- and moderate-income communities. A new report by the Clean Energy States Alliance explores the opportunities and challenges of bringing solar to an often-overlooked market that is ripe with potential: manufactured homes. Manufactured homes, formerly referred to…
Connecticut Brings Solar to Low- and Moderate-Income Homeowners
Low- and moderate-income (LMI) Americans have had less access to solar than those with higher incomes. Even LMI residents who own their own homes face barriers to installing solar. The Connecticut Green Bank, a quasi-state agency established by the Connecticut General Assembly, analyzed the obstacles and developed tools to bring cost-effective solar, combined with energy efficiency, to the state’s LMI homeowners.
Financing Resilient Power: Expanding Solar+Storage Solutions to Communities on the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis
By Rob Sanders and Lew Milford, Clean Energy Group In California, millions of people have gone without power due to preventative utility shutoffs – a problematic response to wildfires savaging the state. Other devastating outages are now commonplace throughout the US, following the ever-increasing number of severe storms and other disasters. In California and elsewhere,…