Entries for Energizing Rural Communities Prize

Project Greenlight empowers rural communities to efficiently identify, prioritize, vet and capitalize community-scale clean energy projects

Enabling Financial Assistance to Local Resources to Access Clean Geothermal Energy Sources in Rural Communities

Implementing green farming solution through an integrated platform of solar, dripirrigation and soil rotation.

Increase financial and technical capacity to facilitate rural-led development of clean energy projects through formalized capital stack.

Centering a historic village center designation around renewable energy and energy democracy with a microgrid.

We will develop a renewables implementation plan for Quincy, Florida. Quincy owns an electric utility but no generation assets.

Software tools to promote efficient renewable energy projects at rural airports through youth engagement to rebuild rural communities.

Understand, and explore ways to overcome, financial challenges related to clean energy installations on existing buildings in rural areas.

SolarShare is an early-stage, community-scale solar cooperative democratizing clean energy investment in rural Wisconsin.