What's New With the Accelerator
The Community Power Accelerator is growing and improving. Here are some recent updates and announcements:
Round 3 of $10M Community Power Accelerator Prize Launched
The American-Made Community Power Accelerator Prize Round 3 is a three-phase, $10 million prize competition designed to fast-track the efforts of new, emerging, and expanding solar developers and co-developers to learn, participate, and grow multiple successful community benefiting distributed solar projects by providing funding, training, and other important resources.
Learn more and apply for the American-Made Community Power Accelerator Prize >
New Self-Paced Community Solar Development Course is LIVE
Sign up for the free, self-paced Foundations of Community Solar Development course through the University of New Hampshire Carsey School of Impact Finance. This online training prepares community-based organizations, solar developers, and others to develop, finance, and build community solar projects that bring meaningful benefits to low-income communities.
Learn more and join the course >
New Video: Accelerator Testimonials
What are community-benefiting solar developers saying about the Accelerator? Check out Hear about the Community Power Accelerator prize, technical assistance, and learning opportunities available to solar developers in this new video.
Find out more in the new video >How the Accelerator Supports Project Developers
More Project Types
The Community Power Accelerator now offers a range of distributed solar energy project types that could benefit low-income communities. New project types include aggregations of behind-the-meter resources (for example, residential rooftop solar and virtual power plants); microgrids; and commercial or industrial solar—in addition to community solar.
Introducing Portfolios
Developers can now add standalone projects or aggregate projects into portfolios. Portfolios allow developers to diversify and de-risk individual projects by creating groupings of projects with different sizes, business models, and geographies. Portfolios are often more attractive for capital providers.
(coming soon...) New Developer Intake and Project Wizard
We created a new wizard for project developers that provides tools, tips and pro-forma support. As developers add projects to the Accelerator marketplace, the site algorithm helps connect those projects to aligned capital partners.