 The March 15 deadline is rapidly approaching to apply to the $10 million Community Power Accelerator Prize.
The Community Power Accelerator Prize: Accessing Capital to Deploy Equitable Community Solar is a competition designed to fast-track the efforts of new, emerging, and expanding solar developers and co-developers to learn, participate, and grow their operations to support multiple successful community solar projects. Community solar project developers or co-developers interested in expanding their staff and operations and incorporating meaningful benefits into multiple community solar projects are eligible to compete and can sign up on the HeroX platform.
Competitors can earn up to $400,000 each in prizes across three rounds of the competition by showing notable progress in project pre-development activities, including designing, financing, incorporating equity, and enabling access to at least two of the five meaningful benefits of community solar identified by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Community Solar Partnership: Low- to moderate-income household access, greater household savings, resilience and grid benefits, community ownership, and equitable workforce development.
Applications are due on March 15 at 5 p.m. ET. Learn more about the prize and the application process.
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