DOE Announces New Initiatives and Growing Support to Rapidly Increase Community Solar Deployment
At today’s National Community Solar Partnership (NCSP) Annual Summit, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced several new initiatives to unlock barriers to the deployment of community solar. Together, these initiatives will help achieve the NCSP’s target to enable community solar to power the equivalent of 5 million households and create $1 billion in energy bill savings by 2025.
“In achieving the administration’s goals, all communities deserve to benefit from the clean energy transition,” said Kelly Speakes-Backman, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. “Community solar is an essential element of expanding affordable solar energy access by allowing everyone to share in the benefits of clean energy regardless of whether their homes can support rooftop solar panels.”
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