DOE’s Solar Energy Technologies Office today announced the 25 Phase 1 winning teams of the Community Power Accelerator Prize Round 2. Each team will receive a $50,000 cash prize and the opportunity to compete in Phase 2.
After a successful launch of the Community Power Accelerator Prize Round 1 in early 2023, the prize administrators were impressed by the enthusiastic response to Round 2 of the prize, as well. With more than 75 distinguished applications submitted to Round 2, the prize judges were challenged to choose only 25 winning teams.
Read a brief summary of the winning submissions below and find more about each team here.
Aardex Corporation, Empowering Communities: Solar Equity for All(Colorado and Arkansas)
Citizen Energy (Avanza Sun), Solarize Low-Income Multifamily Latino Communities (Maryland)
Clean Slate Solar and Housing Initiative, Equitable CommUnity Solar Alliance (Maryland)
Cooperative Energy Futures, Equitable Community Solar-the Cooperative Model (Minnesota)
Ecological Citizen’s Project, Solar for Social Good - Hudson Valley (New York)
Energy Conservation Works, Cowboy Community Solar (Wyoming)
Enterprise Community Development, Enterprise Community Solar (Maryland)
Green Door Initiative, Motor City to Solar City (Michigan)
Hoʻāhu Energy Cooperative Molokai, Energy Sovereignty on Molokai (Hawaii)
ICAST, Equitable Community Solar for Tribal Nations(Virginia and New Mexico)
Minneapolis Climate Action, Community Solar EmPOWERing our City and People (Minnesota)
Mississippi Energy Developers, Mississippi Community Solar for Rural Areas (Mississippi)
Monadnock Energy, Scaling Community Solar for LMI in New Hampshire (New Hampshire)
OneEnergy Renewables, Silver Buckshot (Maryland and Ohio)
Piedmont Housing Alliance, Piedmont Solar (Virginia)
Powerhouse Energy 360, Brightening every Community with Solar (Georgia)
Premier Energy, High Plains Community Microgrids (Nebraska)
Prosperity Works, Expand access to low income New Mexicans (New Mexico)
RAMP Solar, LLC, RAMP Solar: Creating energy, food and jobs in LA (California)
Reactivate DevCo, LLC, Community benefits through community solar (Illinois)
Rivertown Solar, Solar Savings for LMI Customers in Westchester, NY (New York)
Sien, Inc., Central Valley Clean Energy (California)
SolaRay Farms, Inc., SolaRay Farms (Oregon)
The Point, Hunts Point Community Solar (New York)
Tribuquent, Feather Light Energy Project (Oklahoma and Minnesota)
Phase 2 winners of the Community Power Accelerator Prize Round 2 are planned to be announced August 2024.
Thank you to all who applied!
