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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Virginia’s HB 1184 (2020)

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

Requires the State Corporation Commission to establish by regulation a shared solar program.

California’s Solar on Multifamily Affordable Housing Program

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures, State Public Utility Commissions

The SOMAH program will provide up to $100 million in rebates annually for the next decade to put solar on multifamily affordable housing in California, while allowing tenants to access the benefits.

Connecticut Shared Clean Energy Facility Pilot Program

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

A two-year initiative to support the development of SCEFs in Connecticut.

Hawaii’s Community-Based Renewable Energy Program

Jurisdiction: States and State Governments, Public Utilities, State Public Utility Commissions

Allowing electric utility customers to participate with qualified projects in exchange for bill credits.

Maine’s Distributed Generation Procurement Program

Jurisdiction: Private Entities, State Public Utility Commissions

2019 law requires the PUC to procure 250 MW of Shared DG projects and 125 MW of Commercial and Institutional DG projects through a series of competitive solicitations.

Model Community Solar Legislation

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

The Coalition for Community Solar Access has authored two sets of model community solar legislation for vertically integrated states and restructured states.

Community Solar Policy Decision Matrix

Jurisdiction: Local Governments

The Coalition for Community Solar Access has authored a matrix intended to lead policymakers through important questions in the community solar development process.

FPL SolarTogether

Jurisdiction: Public Utilities, State Public Utility Commissions

FPL will install 1,490 megawatts of community solar at 20 new solar power plants across FPL’s service territory, with projected long-term savings of $249 million.

Con Edison’s Commercial Battery Storage Project

Jurisdiction: Public Utilities

A new ownership model whereby the utility sites batteries at customer sites which it is free to draw on during peak periods, but which the customer may utilize during non-peak period.

Minnesota’s Community Solar Garden program

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures, State Public Utility Commissions

Allows multiple customers to engage with a common, utility- or non-utility owned solar system up to 1 MW.