Maximize the benefits of local solar in your community
Explore and act on clean energy opportunities in your area
achieve your sustainability objectives
maximize the benefits for your entire community
help residents and small businesses benefit from clean energy and save on their electric bills
Municipalities and organizations can partner with Joule to run a grassroots campaign that connects customers with a vetted local solar project in or nearby your community.
Why it matters
Community solar projects offer subscribers guaranteed electric bill savings, with a free and simple sign-up process. However, conventional marketing leads consumers to think community solar is a "too good to be true" scam. They are inundated with impersonal sales offers through channels they don’t trust.
The result: People are tuning out instead of signing up.
What you can do about it
Increase local buy-in and help inspire community-wide enthusiasm and participation through community-based campaigns, spearheaded by Joule.
Yes, your municipality and organization can sign up and save too
Municipalities, Counties, School Districts, Business and more, can access guaranteed savings on their electricity bills by subscribing to a new local solar farm.
This opportunity allows communities to save their money for what matters most to them, while helping keep our air and water clean. Click here to learn more
develop new energy resources in your community
Access newly available state and federal dollars, and enable your community including low-income residents, to benefit from the development of local clean energy projects.
Whether you are looking to build solar and energy storage on local properties or benefit from projects being built elsewhere, Joule helps you navigate and act on new and existing project opportunities, particularly on the part of your low- to moderate-income (LMI) residents.
Through a community planning process, Joule can also bring together local stakeholders to enable you to make informed decisions together, as a community.
Available opportunities:
Joule’s services help municipalities and local not-for-profit organizations identify and act on local project opportunities.
These services are free to municipalities and community groups. We assess opportunities and are compensated by any contracted 3rd parties.
Local clean energy plan:
Project assessment
Modeling
Maximize available funding:
Tax credits and grants
Community engagement plan:
Ensuring low-income residents’ benefit
Benefits:
Significant payment on the total project cost
Enhanced project economics that will attract multiple developers to bid to complete aspirational community projects
Lower electricity costs for residents
Low-income customer priority
Support with job development opportunities for disadvantaged communities
A safer and healthier environment
Improved local resiliency
We can help demystify the opportunities that emerge from the Federal Inflation Reduction Act and help municipalities and local non-profits act on them. This offering specifically helps you develop new renewable and resilience projects and maximize local benefit, for all residents including low- to moderate-income (LMI) communities.