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.
Valuing the Resilience Provided by Solar and Battery Energy Storage Systems
This short insight brief outlines the value that resilient solar can provide and can serve as a reference when engaging city leadership in the value of pursuing solar + storage projects for resiliency.
Resilient Southeast: Exploring Opportunities for Solar+Storage in Five Cities
This report evaluates the current policy landscape and economic potential for solar and battery storage to provide clean, reliable backup power to critical facilities in five cities: Atlanta, GA; Charleston, SC; Miami, FL; New Orleans, LA; and Wilmington, NC.
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.
Low-Income Solar Policy Guide
This website provides case studies and policy recommendations to promote the uptake of solar in low-income communities.
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.
Financing Community-Scale Solar
RMI’s Financing Community Scale Solar Brief provides an overview of community solar, financing structures, and risks.