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GreenBiz: New local campaigns can bring cheaper and cleaner rooftop solar to communities of color
After realizing that business as usual wasn’t spurring solar uptake in low-income communities, the Connecticut Green Bank created new incentives specifically for LMI residents, paired solar with energy efficiency upgrades, instituted “no money down, no credit required” Solarize offerings and recruited contractors with experience reaching underserved markets.
An assortment of interests are stepping up pressure on Capitol Hill to include assistance for struggling clean energy sectors in the upcoming COVID-19 relief package that lawmakers are hoping to enact in the coming weeks.
After House Passage, Nearly 100 Groups Urge Senate to Add Clean Energy Jobs Accelerator in Recovery Package
Nearly 100 organizations today sent a letter to U.S. Senate leaders requesting they include $20 billion to start a clean energy jobs nonprofit accelerator in the economic relief package being crafted.
We are thrilled to see @CTgreenbank mentioned in the newest @greenbiz article on the environmental justice outcomes of green bank financing! Check it out below https://www.greenbiz.com/article/new-local-campaigns-can-bring-cheaper-and-cleaner-rooftop-solar-communities-color
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-07-28/what-the-world-gets-if-u-s-electricity-becomes-100-green
