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Solar Market Pathways Final Report

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1474296· OSTI ID:1474296
 [1];  [2]
  1. Institute for Sustainable Communities, Montpelier, VT (United States); Institute for Sustainable Communities
  2. Institute for Sustainable Communities, Montpelier, VT (United States)
The Solar Market Pathways program supported the development of successful and replicable solar deployment plans and strategies, and inspired and helped others across the country initiate or improve their own solar strategies based on lessons learned and promising practices. This report shares how the Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC), as the national coordinator, created and fostered a strong peer network that enabled the transfer of ideas, peer support, and lessons learned between Solar Market Pathways projects. This network accelerated learning and allowed awardees to advance their innovations—building on each other’s successes and mistakes, and effectively streamlining resource use. Within this report, we document the project results and impacts of Solar Market Pathways, which are broad reaching and include jump-starting the community solar market in the Chicago region, creating comprehensive deployment plans in nascent markets in Duluth and Utah, facilitating regional market development in the northeast, and using solar+storage to build community resilience in cities like New York and San Francisco.
Research Organization:
Institute for Sustainable Communities, Montpelier, VT (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Solar Energy Technologies Office (EE-4S)
Contributing Organization:
NREL; Regulatory Assistance Project; Interstate Renewable Energy Council
DOE Contract Number:
EE0006907
OSTI ID:
1474296
Report Number(s):
DOE--EE0006907-Final
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English