Screening Tool for Equitable Adoption and Deployment of Solar (STEADy Solar)

Ferrall-Wolf, Isa; McLaren, Joyce

doi:10.7799/2361133

Title: Screening Tool for Equitable Adoption and Deployment of Solar (STEADy Solar)

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The Screening Tool for Equitable Adoption and DeploYment of Solar (STEADy Solar) is a database and mapping tool designed to promoting clean energy investments for low-income communities across the United States. The tool indicates locations that may be eligible for the Investment Tax Credit bonus adders defined in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and combines this information with demographics, social vulnerability, solar technical potential, solar economics (modeled net present value), and building counts by use-type. It can be used by states, municipalities, community-based organizations, developers, and researchers to identify sites where solar projects may be economical and where federal incentives may be available to support equitable adoption of solar. Specific values include: - Areas eligible for the Energy Communities Tax Credit Bonus Program (including brownfield site counts) - Areas eligible for the Low Income Communities Bonus Credit Program (including Tribal Lands, and covered affordable housing project counts) - Areas categorized as disadvantaged by Justice40 - Commercial and Residential Solar economics characterized by the Net Present Value and Simple Payback Period - Total Population, Race, and Ethnicity - Median Household Income, Poverty rate, Household Tenure - Social Vulnerability - Count of buildings, developable rooftop solar capacity (in kWdc) and estimatedmore »« less

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Accelerated Deployment and Decision Support Center; National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Accelerated Deployment and Decision Support Center

Publication Date:: Thu May 16 00:00:00 EDT 2024

Other Number(s):: 32954

Research Org.:: National Renewable Energy Laboratory - Data (NREL-DATA), Golden, CO (United States); National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

Subject:: 14 SOLAR ENERGY; 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY; Brownfield Properties; CEJST; Energy Communities Tax Credit Bonus; Inflation Reduction Act; LMI Communities; Low Income Communities Bonus Credit Program; Multifamily affordable housing; National Structures Inventory; Renewable Energy Potential model; Residential Solar; STEADy; Tribal Land; census tract; commercial solar; dGen; equitable solar adoption; geospatial; solar; solar economics; solar site selection

OSTI Identifier:: 2361133

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7799/2361133

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                    Ferrall-Wolf, Isa, and McLaren, Joyce. Screening Tool for Equitable Adoption and Deployment of Solar (STEADy Solar).  United States: N. p., 2024. 
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                    Ferrall-Wolf, Isa, & McLaren, Joyce. Screening Tool for Equitable Adoption and Deployment of Solar (STEADy Solar).  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.7799/2361133

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                    Ferrall-Wolf, Isa, and McLaren, Joyce. 2024.  
"Screening Tool for Equitable Adoption and Deployment of Solar (STEADy Solar)".  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.7799/2361133.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/2361133. Pub date:Thu May 16 00:00:00 EDT 2024

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  title        = {Screening Tool for Equitable Adoption and Deployment of Solar (STEADy Solar)},

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  abstractNote = {The Screening Tool for Equitable Adoption and DeploYment of Solar (STEADy Solar) is a database and mapping tool designed to promoting clean energy investments for low-income communities across the United States. The tool indicates locations that may be eligible for the Investment Tax Credit bonus adders defined in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and combines this information with demographics, social vulnerability, solar technical potential, solar economics (modeled net present value), and building counts by use-type. It can be used by states, municipalities, community-based organizations, developers, and researchers to identify sites where solar projects may be economical and where federal incentives may be available to support equitable adoption of solar. Specific values include: - Areas eligible for the Energy Communities Tax Credit Bonus Program (including brownfield site counts) - Areas eligible for the Low Income Communities Bonus Credit Program (including Tribal Lands, and covered affordable housing project counts) - Areas categorized as disadvantaged by Justice40 - Commercial and Residential Solar economics characterized by the Net Present Value and Simple Payback Period - Total Population, Race, and Ethnicity - Median Household Income, Poverty rate, Household Tenure - Social Vulnerability - Count of buildings, developable rooftop solar capacity (in kWdc) and estimated annual generation potential (in kWh) on four building types: Government General Services, Government Emergency Response, Grade Schools, and Colleges/Universities. The linked report describes the STEADy dataset metadata and presents high level insights from the data. The downloadable and formatted excel dataset makes it easy for users to gain insights for their locations. Supporting .csv and shapefiles provide users with the full data to run their own analyses on equitable solar siting.},

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