Download or read book Community Solar Program Design and Subscription Models written by and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This slide deck provides an overview of community solar program design and subscription models. It introduces and explains the different elements of community solar program and subscription design, and proves proven practices and considerations when designing a community solar program. This slide deck was originally developed as part of a working group under the National Community Solar Partnership's Municipal Utility Collaborative.

Download or read book Community Solar Program and Subscription Design written by and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This slide deck provides an overview of community solar program design and subscription models. It introduces and explains the different elements of community solar program and subscription design, and proves proven practices and considerations when designing a community solar program. This slide deck was developed for a continuing education course hosted by the American Public Power Association (APPA).

Download or read book Equitable Access to Community Solar written by Jenny Heeter and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Community Solar Overview Ownership Models and the Benefits of Locally Owned Community Solar Projects written by and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This slide deck provides an overview of community solar. It introduces community solar programs and their benefits, explains different ownership models, and ends with the best practices to keep in mind when starting a locally owned community solar project.

Download or read book Design and Implementation of Community Solar Programs for Low and Moderate income Customers written by Jenny Heeter and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Focusing the Sun State Considerations for Designing Community Solar Policy written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report summarizes outcomes from the National Community Solar Partnership State Best Practices working group by identifying key differences in state policies that enable community solar and illustrating how various policy design approaches may impact the market. For the latter question, it is too early to quantify a relationship between policy design and market impacts, because most state programs have not been fully implemented. So, the authors conducted interviews with 19 subject matter experts, including project developers, regulators, and utilities to better understand how various policy design approaches may impact community solar markets. These perspectives, along with those gleaned from the working group and relevant literature were synthesized to identify key considerations for policymakers designing community solar programs. Though state community solar policies vary in numerous ways, the report focuses on the following critical elements: program cap, project size cap, subscriber location requirements, subscriber eligibility requirements, low- and moderate-income stipulations, and subscriber compensation.

Download or read book Attributes for the Design of a Community Solar Program written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sharing the Sun written by Jenny Heeter and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proceedings of the 52nd American Solar Energy Society National Solar Conference 2023 written by Dave Renné and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights research presented during the American Solar Energy Society’s 52nd National Solar Conference (ASES SOLAR 2023) held at the University of Colorado Boulder. The conference, with the theme of “Transforming the Energy Landscape for All” attracted a broad base of solar and renewable energy professionals and thought leaders, including researchers, architects, engineers, entrepreneurs, installers, manufacturers, economists, finance professionals, and policymakers – providing a platform for the exchange of ideas, information and business insights and unbiased perspectives on progress toward greater sustainability. These conference papers explore best practices and major roadblocks from a variety of perspectives in the transformation towards 100% renewable energy in the United States, focusing on the challenges to advancing renewables through principles of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI).

Download or read book Community Solar Governance written by John Byrne and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To assess market development, and governance and equity implications in detail, the research team investigates programs in California, Massachusetts, and New York. The analysis yields insight into the current and future operation of Community Clean Energy authorities (CCEs) in these three states. We estimate that the CCEs in operation in the three states in question now represent over 15 million people. In particular, we identify 471 cities, towns, and counties that have embarked on the community solar choice and CCE authority trajectory. For each state, we assess market conditions by evaluating solar sales, contracts, CCE coverage, and CCE market scale. We find that 55%+ of the Massachusetts population now resides in jurisdictions with active CCE efforts and the same is true for ~41% of the California population. Rapid growth of the CCE model is expected to continue in all three states. We find that CCEs spur substantial solar energy deployment. For example, we were able to examine 85 solar energy transactions by California CCEs that together exceed 3.8 GWp of solar capacity. Our analysis of governance and equity considerations finds that operational CCEs can be classified into two main types: a) a City/County model where individual municipalities embark on community-wide energy decision-making; and b) a joint powers agency (JPA) model where municipalities engage in a collaborative framework to make joint decisions affecting their energy futures. We find both models in all three states. We observe a tendency for JPA strategies to emerge after City/County models have been in operation in the state. We further find that larger, more mature CCE efforts typically emphasize a more sophisticated level of community inputs. CCEs are realizing lower solar-generated electricity prices compared to incumbent utility offerings. The benefits are often explicitly shared with low- and moderate- income families that receive, for instance, temporary relief due to emergencies like the COVID-19 pandemic and permanent discounts on their electricity bills through bill offsets and shared savings. CCEs in California, Massachusetts, and New York are earmarking solar energy deployment that directly serves LMI households through discounted electricity offerings. The solar energy programs and projects initiated by CCEs in the three states are managed and overseen by local governments. While the extent and depth of local government participation varies, we see evidence in all three states that local government oversight produces benefits for the community as a whole that would otherwise be unavailable in utility or private developer-based subscriber programs. CCE authorities provided rights and consumer protection not often found in utility and private developer-based subscriber models. This governance benefit leverages community-wide interests and power. The observed CCEs are engaged in a process of innovation where more and more services and functions are initiated in service to the community. No longer is it the case that these entities are solely motivated to deliver lower electricity prices for their community.

Download or read book Blockchain Technology to Replace Virtual Net Metering in a Community Solar Project written by Kylee Hansan and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community solar is the use of solar energy as a communal resource system, with electricity (in units of kWh) serving as resource units that can be allocated among a group of diverse stakeholders. Research to date has focused on the onboarding process for community solar projects and analyzed factors such as local electricity prices, solar resource, and government intervention on the development of a community solar project. Research has shown that virtual net metering laws are critical in the development of community solar projects. Virtual net metering laws are limited the state of Pennsylvania making it challenging for the development of community solar projects. Without virtual net metering, low income communities in urban locations such as North Philadelphia do not have access to solar goods or services. Instead of virtual net metering, blockchain technology can be used as the transaction management tool for solar as a numeraire good. Blockchain is a distributed and decentralized virtual ledger of transactions. Blockchain technology can connect power generators and consumers into self-governing communities that generate, consume, and trade solar goods and services. Through analyses of common pool resources, jointly intentional group agents, shared economies, and Elinor Ostroms Eight Core Design Principles it was determined that blockchain technology is able to act as management platform for a community solar project. Cooperative game theory, specifically Shapleys Formula, is used to compare the effects of virtual net metering versus blockchain as a management platform for community solar. A 3-player game was used to model virtual net metering, and a 4-player game was used to model blockchain. These two games were tested with varying inputs, and it was found that using blockchain as a management platform enables low income communities 10% more access to solar goods and services than virtual net metering.

Download or read book Community Solar Barriers Project Models and Considerations for Multifamily Affordable Housing written by and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community solar can offer immense benefits to multifamily affordable housing (MFAH) providers and low- and moderate-income (LMI) households through reduced electricity bills or enhanced services or building amenities. Although MFAH providers and households may wish to pursue the benefits of community solar, barriers exist. This issue brief summarizes the current MFAH market and challenges to community solar adoption, followed by a discussion of four community solar project models that address solar adoption barriers faced by MFAH providers and households.

Download or read book Resource Allocation Under Income Disparity and Valuation Heterogeneity written by Siddharth Prakash Singh and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Problem Definition: The challenge of optimally allocating a limited resource and its associated cost/benefit among consumers with heterogeneous income levels and private resource valuations arises in many situations. This paper tackles this challenge in the context of utility-led community solar (CS). Traditionally, CS participants supported solar projects by sharing solar capacity and its associated costs. With the falling cost of solar, CS now yields net savings, rather than incurring a net cost. Retaining their original design, CS programs pass savings onto participating consumers, who are only a small fraction of the residents. Consequently, CS programs (i) are unable to distribute the gains among the broader community; and (ii) can no longer tap into the willingness-to-pay of green-conscious participants. The program design needs to be rethought.Methodology/results: We model heterogeneity in consumers' incomes and green energy valuations. We study various alternative program designs. The most sophisticated one offers consumers income-dependent menus of subscription capacity and rate options. This approach improves social welfare significantly, closing over 90% of the gap between the current approach and a theoretical first-best. It achieves this by ensuring that CS capacity is accessible to everyone who wants it and restoring the opportunity for highly green-conscious consumers to support solar energy. We further illustrate the usefulness of our proposed design using numerical studies calibrated by data from actual CS programs. We also endogenize the CS program sizing decision and find that our proposed design leads to larger CS projects. Managerial implications: Carefully redesigning CS programs can create significant welfare improvements. More generally, in resource allocation problems with income and valuation heterogeneity, there is significant value to be gained from explicitly using income information in deciding allocations.

Download or read book Revolutionary Power written by Shalanda Baker and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 2017, Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, completely upending the energy grid of the small island. The nearly year-long power outage that followed vividly shows how the new climate reality intersects with race and access to energy. The island is home to brown and black US citizens who lack the political power of those living in the continental US. As the world continues to warm and storms like Maria become more commonplace, it is critical that we rethink our current energy system to enable reliable, locally produced, and locally controlled energy without replicating the current structures of power and control. In Revolutionary Power, Shalanda Baker arms those made most vulnerable by our current energy system with the tools they need to remake the system in the service of their humanity. She argues that people of color, poor people, and indigenous people must engage in the creation of the new energy system in order to upend the unequal power dynamics of the current system. Revolutionary Power is a playbook for the energy transformation complete with a step-by-step analysis of the key energy policy areas that are ripe for intervention. Baker tells the stories of those who have been left behind in our current system and those who are working to be architects of a more just system. She draws from her experience as an energy-justice advocate, a lawyer, and a queer woman of color to inspire activists working to build our new energy system. Climate change will force us to rethink the way we generate and distribute energy and regulate the system. But how much are we willing to change the system? This unique moment in history provides an unprecedented opening for a deeper transformation of the energy system, and thus, an opportunity to transform society. Revolutionary Power shows us how.

Download or read book Sharing the Sun written by Jenny Heeter and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lessons Learned written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report outlines the work that STAT has completed, discusses the range of approaches utilities are taking, and highlights several challenges municipal utilities face in deciding whether and how to pursue community solar. As this report shows, there is no 'silver bullet' in terms of municipal utility community solar design or implementation - programs vary significantly and are highly dependent on localized contexts.

Download or read book Energy Democracy written by Denise Fairchild and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The near-unanimous consensus among climate scientists is that the massive burning of gas, oil, and coal is having cataclysmic impacts on our atmosphere and climate. These climate and environmental impacts are particularly magnified and debilitating for low-income communities and communities of color. Energy democracy tenders a response and joins the environmental and climate movement with broader movements for social and economic change in this country and around the world. Energy Democracy brings together racial, cultural, and generational perspectives to show what an alternative, democratized energy future can look like. The book will inspire others to take up the struggle to build the energy democracy movement.