Draft2:Community-Centered Solar Development
The Community-Centered Solar Development is working with local communities, applying both qualitative and quantitative techniques and a community-based approach to understand concerns, benefits, and drawbacks of large-scale solar.
The program is with Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Funding
This project is made possible through the support of the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Solar Energy Technologies Office Award Number 38419.
Goals
Our goal is to help communities align their solar energy planning with community values, energy and procedural justice themes, and developer requirements.
History
The project team members and activities are spread across six interlinked and ordered tasks that serve to organize and focus our efforts.
Task 1: Case Study Analysis
Analyze six existing solar projects (brownfield, agrivoltaic, and greenfield, including those in underserved communities) involving interviews to uncover the key factors that led to project success or threatened failure.
Task 2: National Large-Scale Solar (LSS) Neighbor Survey
Conduct a national random survey of at least 1,000 LSS project neighbors, oversampling among site types, to reexamine case-study findings at a broader empirical scale enabling national generalization.
Task 3: Tax, Income, and Employment Impacts
Conduct one nation-wide analysis of LSS impacts on local tax, local individual- and firm-level income or employment, characterize a baseline average economic impact, and also conduct a deep topical dive to allow greater applicability at a more local level.
Task 4: LSS Mapping & Categorization
A geographic categorization will be completed of all existing U.S. LSS sites, as well as analyses of land-use and capacity trends to better understand future LSS development potential.
Task 5: Community-Based Solutions & Visioning
Engage in planning with six potential LSS host communities to utilize information from the previous tasks to develop community-centered and audience-specific plans for prospective LSS developments. Produce a guidebook and checklist for a broader audience.
Task 6: Outreach and Dissemination
Establish a technical advisory committee, arrange internships with students from Task 5 communities, and conduct extensive outreach and dissemination on all project deliverables.
See https://communitycenteredsolar.lbl.gov/project-timeline for more details.
Partners
- U.S. Geological Survey
- Michigan State University
- University of Connecticut
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- University of Michigan
- American University
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