Low-Income Community Solar: Utility Return Considerations for Electric Cooperatives

Alexandra Aznar; Douglas Gagne

doi:10.2172/1432761

Low-Income Community Solar: Utility Return Considerations for Electric Cooperatives

Alexandra Aznar, Douglas Gagne

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Abstract

The objective of this short report is to identify project structures that make low-income community solar projects more cost-effective, replicable, and scalable, for electric cooperative and municipal utilities. This report explores the tradeoffs between providing energy bill savings for low-income subscribers and utility project returns, as well as some of the key lessons learned from existing successful low-income community solar pilot projects.

Original language	American English
Number of pages	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2172/1432761
State	Published - 2018

NREL Publication Number

NREL/TP-7A40-70536

Keywords

community solar
energy burden
low income
solar
solar technical assistance team

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