The Community Power Coalition
Powering America Together Program
Awardee for an announced $249.3 million award under the EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund 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
124 MW
total solar deployed
31,012 households served
in low-income and disadvantaged communities
500 developers trained
over the program period
Technical Assistance (TA) May Include:
Operating under a participatory governance model; using a Steering Committee that advises on participatory governance, program design, expansion focus areas, and funding allocation
Promoting the expansion of community solar to nascent state markets, with a "race to the top" and incentives in key states, currently projected in years 4 and 5
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
Aligning to and extending the impact of the National Community Solar Partnership and Community Power Accelerator
Financial Assistance May include:
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
Trade association and network of minority business owners in renewable energy
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
Research institution providing educational and training resources
The program covers 46 states and territories and all 10 EPA regions
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