Acting as a project manager requires a city to take on significantly more tasks to design and execute the community solar program; however, this added responsibility also provides the city with an unparalleled ability to control the process and ensure that the program meets the city’s needs.
Community Solar
Becoming a Project Manager
Identify and evaluate the suitability of potential sites for a project
Determine how you will find customers to subscribe to your project
Identify the resources and processes needed to recruit and manage the community solar subscriptions
Consider issues such as participation requirements and the subscribers’ value proposition
Conduct a request for proposal to identify a preferred development firm
Identify and evaluate the suitability of potential sites for a project
Consider issues such as participation requirements and the subscribers’ value proposition
Determine how you will find customers to subscribe to your project
Conduct a request for proposal to identify a preferred development firm
Identify the resources and processes needed to recruit and manage the community solar subscriptions
Capture Additional Benefits
Further actions to help your community capture additional benefits from a community solar project.
Include a job training component in your RFI/P(s)
Reduce costs with aggregation
Promote low-income subscription by lowering costs, creating financing options, or designing the program to prioritize low-income subscriptions
Convene potential project hosts
Include a job training component in your RFI/P(s)
Promote low-income subscription by lowering costs, creating financing options, or designing the program to prioritize low-income subscriptions
Reduce costs with aggregation
Convene potential project hosts