Community Solar for Your Town, City, or County
High Impact Clean Energy Leadership for Municipalities
Easily enroll your residents in Community Solar – help the environment and your residents' wallets!
Bring clean energy to your municipality
Participating in Community Solar is simple. Subscribers see credits applied to their utility bill, reducing what they owe in electricity costs. Unlike rooftop solar, there is nothing to install or maintain with Community Solar.
Save your constituents real money
Community Solar provides a cost savings guarantee. There is no teaser rate or fine print to interpret. Anyone can benefit from Community Solar savings. In many states, Community Solar farms are prioritized for low-to-moderate income (LMI) residents who need savings the most.
Be recognized as a green leader
Community Solar is a straightforward municipal solution for taking climate action. Demonstrate your municipal leadership on the environment while saving residents money on electricity.
Additional Benefits for Municipalities in New York
Municipalities have played a key role in New York's Community Solar program since it was established in 2016. Through NYSERDA, you can enroll residents in Community Solar as a Clean Energy Communities action item, earning points toward your town’s climate leadership designation. The program places specific emphasis on low-to-moderate income residents, as a means of financial relief for those most affected by rising energy costs.
How the Ampion Municipal Community Solar Program works
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Set up your Municipal Program
Ampion starts by educating your municipality’s leaders about your state's Community Solar program. Ampion will lead the process of setting up your program and finding solar farms for your community.
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Engage and educate your Community
Ampion runs an educational outreach campaign to engage your community, making sure residents are aware of the initiative (and excited about it!). We’ll host information sessions, provide promotional materials, and spread the word about the savings, the environmental benefits, and how to sign up.
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Energize the Solar Farm
Leave the details to us. Ampion manages all of the complexities of subscriber eligibility and solar farm allocation requirements.
Ampion remains involved for the life of the project, managing the subscriber experience on an ongoing basis. Our role is to ensure that your residents receive the bill credits correctly and that we provide top notch customer support for as long as residents are enrolled.
What to expect with Community Solar
Guaranteed savings
With the fixed discount on solar credits, residents’ annual electricity costs will be lower than they would be without Community Solar.
No change in utility
Residents will continue to receive a bill from their utility. With Community Solar, they’ll see solar credits on their invoice highlighting the savings from their Community Solar subscription.
Climate-friendly energy
This state program enables climate action by funding solar farm development and delivering renewable energy to the grid.
How is this different from a traditional CCA (Community Choice Aggregation)?
Traditional CCAs allow municipal leaders to sign their residents up with a retail energy supplier. Community Solar is a state-backed program. Your residents can choose to enroll, supporting climate-friendly Community Solar energy while saving money.
Community Solar gives communities easy access to locally-produced, money-saving solar energy – no installations or rooftops required!
Why Ampion?
Ampion is uniquely positioned to manage your Community Solar program for you, given our experience as a leading Community Solar administrator.
Long History of Municipal Partnerships
Over the years, we’ve worked extensively with municipalities across states.
We have administered over a dozen Community Solar partnerships that have given our team a strong understanding of municipal needs.
Custom Technology, Experienced Team
Ampion’s advanced, one-of-a-kind technology platform is pivotal to running the program efficiently. Our systems integrate with the solar farm and the utility, with data connections spanning solar farm production, the residents’ energy use and the utility’s billing systems. This 360-degree view allows Ampion to provide rich insights to residents and town leadership, while continuously adjusting the sizes of residents’ solar farm shares and maximizing savings.
We work with some of the largest and most well-established solar developers in the industry, providing the stability and confidence your municipality deserves.
Ampion is the most experienced partner to ensure the long-term success of municipal Community Solar programs, and we look forward to connecting more municipalities to affordable clean energy.