Meaningful Household Savings from Solar

This presentation summarizes best practices, pathways to scale meaningful household savings, and research needs. This slide deck was produced for a webinar hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy on October 30, 2024, as part of the Equitable Solar Communities of Practice initiative. CESA was selected to lead the community of practice on Meaningful Household Savings. This community of practice focused 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 looked at tenant benefits provided to residents of multi-family housing. It is a companion to CESA’s 2025 report Meaningful Household Savings: Best Practices for Achieving Equitable Solar Development.