This report provides guidance on how utilities can collaborate with low- and moderate-income customers to promote the use of clean energy technologies and business model innovation.
Racial Equity Toolkit
This toolkit is designed to integrate explicit consideration of racial equity in decisions, including policies, practices, programs, and budgets. It is both a product and a process. Use of this tool can help to develop strategies and actions that reduce racial inequities and improve success for all groups.
Equity Impact Review Process
The Equity Impact Review Process, developed by King County, is a process and a tool to identify, evaluate, and communicate the potential impact – both positive and negative – of a policy or program on equity.
Equitable Clean Energy Guidance Book
This guide helps local governments and their partners intentionally design programs that enable current and emerging clean energy technologies to be accessed equitably.
Framework for an Equitable Energy Supply Transformation
This framework can help cities embed equity in city energy supply transformation to low or zero carbon sources. The guide helps users understand potential policy and program impacts via the lenses of procedural, distributional, structural, and transgenerational equity, and includes themed sets of guiding questions city staff and other stakeholders can consider when developing plans and policies for transforming their energy supply to meet their climate goals.
Equity Foundations
This webpage helps local government staff to apply an equity lens to a sustainability project, including choosing a good project, communicating about the project and racial equity, building a team, applying proven equity tools, and designing the project to embed an equity lens in local government practice.
Design and Implementation of Community Solar Programs for Low- and Moderate-Income Customers
This report draws from literature and interviews with representatives from solar developers and state community solar programs to provide experience on low- and moderate-income community solar design.
Community Solar for Low- and Moderate-Income Consumers
Slides produced by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory for a Clean Energy States Alliance webinar outline the advantages and disadvantages of various low- and moderate-income community solar programs design options.
Unlocking Solar for Low- and Moderate-Income Residents: A Matrix of Financing Options by Resident, Provider, and Housing Type
NREL’s report aims to identify the most promising strategies state policymakers might consider using to finance PV for low- and moderate-income customers across three housing types: single family, multi-family, and manufactured housing.
Research Review on Residential Solar Access: Barriers and Solutions for Low- and Moderate-Income Communities
This paper provides a review of reports and research on solar deployment to low- and moderate-income populations, revealing an array of barriers and solutions to their ability to procure solar power.