This memo addresses federal, state, and local legal considerations pertaining to a municipality in Ohio entering into a virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA).
Legal Memo on Virtual Power Purchase Agreements in Missouri
This memo addresses federal, state, and local legal considerations pertaining to a municipality in Missouri entering into a virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA).
Legal Memo on Virtual Power Purchase Agreements in Minnesota
This memo addresses federal, state, and local legal considerations pertaining to a municipality in Minnesota entering into a virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA).
Legal Memo on Virtual Power Purchase Agreements in Indiana
This memo addresses federal, state, and local legal considerations pertaining to a municipality in Indiana entering into a virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA).
Local Government Strategies for 100% Clean Energy
This SolSmart webinar provides an overview of approaches for setting clean energy goals and processes for identifying the most impactful and appropriate implementation strategies, including considerations related to the COVID-19 crisis. The webinar also highlighted case studies from communities that have developed clean energy plans.
Using Community Choice Aggregation to Achieve Clean Energy Goals
This webinar focused on community choice aggregation (CCA) as a potential strategy for local governments to achieve their clean energy goals. The webinar provides an overview of what CCA is, how it works, and considerations for local governments interested in establishing or participating in a CCA program. It also highlights case studies from CCAs across the United States that support local renewable energy development. This webinar provides one AICP CM continuing education credit.
How Local Governments Can Buy Renewable Energy and Support Market Development
This webinar covers strategies local governments can consider to procure renewable energy and support renewable energy market development, including power purchase agreements (PPAs), virtual power purchase agreements (VPPAs), community solar, and more. The webinar also cover how the regulatory landscape impacts the RE purchasing options available to a particular community and highlights case studies from local governments across the United States that have successfully implemented these strategies, including Arlington, VA, and Denver, CO.
More Than a Megawatt: Embedding Social & Environmental Impact in the Renewable Energy Procurement Process
This paper provides a starting framework and expert third-party guidance on how to maximize the positive social and environmental impacts of renewable energy purchases and minimize the negative impacts.
Solar and Storage for Cities
This resource focuses on two distinct applications for behind-the-meter solar-plus-storage installations at city/county facilities: 1) peak load shaving or peak demand shifting and 2) emergency power (resilience). It provides guidance for city staff to conduct an initial assessment and investigation of solar-plus-storage systems to determine suitable system size and performance information that could be incorporated into a planned PV procurement for a single city facility.
Reducing Energy Burden for Low-income Residents in Multifamily Housing with Solar Energy
This issue brief discusses some of the key considerations and related opportunities for deploying solar for low-income multifamily housing, including how differences in multifamily housing financing structure and type can influence resident eligibility as well as resulting impacts on energy burden in both on-site and off-site solar installations.