Pathway 5.

Electricity Decarbonization → Distributed Renewable Energy

5.2.21 Community Renewables and Other DER Ownership Structures

LPDD Recommendation: “States legislatures or state agencies should facilitate the deployment of solar installations through third-party ownership models, through maintaining net metering rate structures, and excluding third-party owners from the definition of regulated utilities.”

LPDD Recommendation: “State legislatures and PUCs should expand community solar ownership legislation, such as virtual net metering, for all customers.”

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LPDD Model Law: State Legislation to Promote Community Solar Facilities

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

Providing a common-sense statutory framework that can be adopted by states that currently have no community solar legislation, and also serving as a basis for amending current legislation that has proved ineffective.

New Mexico’s Community Solar Act

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures, State Public Utility Commissions

Establishes community solar in New Mexico, with a 100MW cap until 2024.

NREL Report, Focusing the Sun: State Considerations for Designing Community Solar Policy

Jurisdiction: States and State Governments

Identifies key differences in state policies that enable community solar and illustrates how various policy design approaches may impact the market.

Arizona Public Service Company’s Solar Communities Program

Jurisdiction: Public Utilities, State Public Utility Commissions

$45 million program that funds utility-owned PV system installations on low- to moderate-income housing, multifamily housing, and non-residential properties.

Con Edison’s Shared Solar Pilot

Jurisdiction: Public Utilities, State Public Utility Commissions

Three MW of community solar generation on Con Edison’s property for the benefit of customers participating in the low-income affordability program.

Colorado Energy Office Low-Income Community Solar Demonstration Project

Jurisdiction: Public Utilities, State Public Utility Commissions

Demonstration Project was designed to help reduce energy burden for over 300 low-income households.

National Grid’s Fruit Belt Community Solar Pilot in Buffalo, NY

Jurisdiction: Public Utilities

Pilot to provide utility-owned solar in a low-income neighborhood, directly benefiting the electric bills of local customers.

DC’s Solar for All Program

Jurisdiction: Local Governments

Solar for All aims to bring the benefits of solar energy to 100,000 low to moderate income families in the District of Columbia.

DOE’s National Community Solar Partnership

Jurisdiction: Individual Agencies, States and State Governments, Local Governments, Private Entities

A DOE-convened coalition of community solar stakeholders - state, local, and tribal governments, utilities, businesses, nonprofit organizations, and others - working to expand access to affordable community solar to every American household by 2025.

New Jersey Community Solar Energy Pilot

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures, Public Utilities, State Public Utility Commissions

New Jersey's pilot community solar program has been lauded for strong provisions prioritizing low and moderate income customer participation.