Fwd: LBNL Study Finds PACE Increases Solar PV Adoption in Underserved Communities

[L.C. Larry Weymouth]

I've also forwarded this email to Sen.Gelser and Rep. Rayfield and encouraged them to get R-PACE on the next legislative agenda.

What's happening with C-PACE for Benton County?

--Larry

PS: Note that the authors of this study will host a webinar highlighting key findings from this work on December 3, 2020, at 1:00 pm EST. Register for the webinar here (link is external).

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To: "Larry Weymouth" <lcwey...@peak.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2020 10:21:07 AM
Subject: LBNL Study Finds PACE Increases Solar PV Adoption in Underserved Communities

View this email in your browser U.S. DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Finds PACE Increases Solar PV Adoption in Underserved Communities Earlier this week, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Lab published a study, "The Impact of Policies and Business Models on Income Equity in Rooftop Solar Adoption," that includes new findings on the positive impacts of PACE for low- and middle-income homeowners. The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Energy, was co-authored by Galen Barbose, Ryan Wiser, Sydney Forrester, and Naim Darghouth of Berkeley Lab's Electricity Markets & Policy group. The researchers studied the impacts of five policies on the adoption of solar PV among low- and middle-income households. Three policies, including PACE, were found to increase adoption among these traditionally underserved homeowners and led to a more equitable distribution of solar PV installations. Berkeley Lab noted that the analysis "found that the first three types of interventions - targeted incentives, leasing, and PACE - are effective at increasing adoption equity. "The results for those three interventions are pretty strong," O'Shaughnessy said. "And the research also provides evidence that these interventions are leading to both deepening, or expanding in existing markets, and broadening, or moving into new markets - low-income areas where there traditionally was not solar." [1] The study adds to a growing body of research, including the recent USC study "The Impact of PACE Funding on Solar Adoption," that found PACE availability drives large increases in the adoption of solar technology.   View the study Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list

[Peter Greenberg]

So does giving up to $9,000 from the ETO rather than $2,400 thru the Solar Within Reach program

Sincerely, 

Peter Greenberg

nrgwise....@gmail.com

www.energywiseservices.com

Energy Wise 

c.(541) 905-2271

f. (541) 610-1756

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[Duvall, Kathryn]

Hi All,

 

For those of you I haven’t met, I’m Kathryn Duvall and I work for the Corvallis-Benton County Economic Development Office and also with CAAB. Our office is working with some of our partners to explore the option of creating a statewide CPACE program. We’ve heard from a lot of organizations and municipalities throughout the state that there is an upswell of interest in PACE so we’re looking into how much support there is and what the next steps would be. I’d be happy to come to an EAT meeting at some point when we have more information to share.

 

Feel free to email or call me.

 

Have a great weekend,

 

Kathryn

 

Kathryn Duvall

Economic Development Specialist

Corvallis-Benton County Economic Development Office

W: (541) 766-6423    www.yescorvallis.org  

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