Resource Library

This guidebook helps municipal officials identify, evaluate, and pursue opportunities to harness the sun’s power to generate electricity and revenue from undeveloped landfill space. Topics covered include: physical requirements of PV systems; PV system economics; landfill considerations; public procurement; and PV system development, design, and installation.

A webpage detailing the Environmental Protection Agency’s RE-Powering America’s Land initiative and associated resources.

A toolkit designed by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center that provides communities with necessary resources to create their own grassroots clean energy adoption programs. Resources include materials to assist in community outreach, marketing, installer selection, campaign management, event planning, and campaign wrap-up and analysis.

This report – funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Energy Technologies Office – provides essential facts and figures regarding generating capacity, subscription rates, and other performance metrics for the community solar market.

An example of a municipal code with solar access guidelines.

As businesses navigate the wide variety of consumer protection rules, this guide will introduce solar companies – both rooftop and community solar providers – to federal and state consumer protection laws and offer some tips for training employees, complaint procedures, and evaluating third-party service providers.

This guide covers fire safety best practices in solar installation related to marking, access/pathways, DC conductors, and other topics.

This report explores solar ready legislation, certification programs for solar ready design/construction, and stakeholder education as avenues to encourage solar ready design and construction.

An example of a community’s inspection appointments page.