The Community Power Coalition
Powering America Together Program
Awardee for an announced $249.3 million award under the EPA’s Solar for All program. Delivering the benefits of community solar models in partnership with low-income and disadvantaged communities.
Scaling Innovative Community Solar Models
The Community Power Coalition is excited to be among the awardees under EPA’s historic Solar for All program. We intend to train an ever-growing cadre of developers across the country to deliver our programs and their multiple meaningful benefits, including:
Community-owned
solar
To build wealth in low-income and disadvantaged communities
Affordable multifamily housing solar
Solutions in regions where community solar is not currently an option
Resident-owned community solar
For cooperatively owned manufactured home developments
Models for rural solar programs
For rural landowners and rural electric cooperative ownerships
Community solar plus storage
Encouraged to enhance grid resiliency and reliability, while maximizing potential savings
Equitable workforce development programs
To share the benefits of jobs in the solar industry
program impacts
CPC is committed to delivering multiple, meaningful benefits for Americans in low-income and disadvantaged communities primarily through community solar projects
Deploy 120+ MW
of total solar
Serve 31,000+ households
across the country
Train 500+ developers,
creating jobs for Americans
Deploy $187M
in financial assistance
Technical Assistance (TA) May Include:
Building developer capacity and tackling barriers to development through training, TA, and peer-to-peer learning
Helping developers coordinate with local workforce ecosystems
Supporting community engagement through partnership development, outreach, and education
Helping developers screen projects for opportunities to add allowable associated energy storage to residential-serving community solar
Building a network of developers focused on community solar models of community ownership
Developer lines of credit
Pre-development, including recoverable grants
Acquisition & construction financing
Investment Tax Credit and interconnection bridge financing
Grants, at the project and subscriber level
Enabling transmission and distribution upgrades sited in low-income and disadvantaged communities
Permanent debt
Credit enhancements
Co-investment with community lenders
Who we are
The Community Power Coalition brings together market experts and community solar leaders deeply engaged with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Community Solar Partnership & Community Power Accelerator
Coalition lead and national mission-driven nonprofit clean energy financing platform
BOSS aims to improve the ecosystem for all entrepreneurs to compete and to expand market opportunities for business whether community owned, cooperatively owned, for profit, non profit, public or privately held.
National nonprofit advancing resilient solar and energy storage
National trade association providing policy support and education
National community development financial institution (CDFI) lending to nonprofits who own affordable housing projects
Developer and financing partner with embedded workforce development models
Convener of National Clean Energy Workforce Alliance
Member network supporting community-owned solar developers
Member network supporting community-owned solar developers
National social venture scaling resident ownership of manufactured home communities
Platform providing technical & financial solutions for the affordable housing market
Research institution providing educational and training resources
The program covers 46 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico
all 10 EPA regions
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Solar for All Resources
Resources include webinars, program guidance, financing product summaries, and more.
Open Positions
Visit our Careers page to browse any open positions, including for our SFA program, and apply today.
Requests for Proposal
Follow the link below to view any open requests for proposal (RFPs) for our Solar for All program.
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