Focusing the Sun: State Considerations for Designing Community Solar Policy

January 10, 2018

Through 2016, community solar programs in 35 states and the District of Columbia had a cumulative total capacity of 275 megawatts (MW) (O’Shaughnessy et al. 2017). To build on the recent momentum around community solar and to facilitate widespread adoption, the National Community Solar Partnership (NCSP) was launched in 2015, led by the U.S. Department of Energy (The White House 2015). The NCSP included four working groups focused on different topics associated with expanding the community solar market, including Community Building, Federal Resources, Finance, and Business Models, and State Best Practices.

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