Solar Energy Innovation Network Blog

A Solar Energy Innovation Network (SEIN) Round 1 project team—led by the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC)—shares the project’s energy resilience impacts since concluding in 2019.

Meet the new Innovation at SCALE (Solar Community Assistance for Local Equity) provider partners and discover how they are advancing distributed-scale solar deployment both locally and nationally.

The SEIN Innovation at SCALE webinar featured SEIN projects and Innovation at SCALE examples and highlighted the types of assistance provided through this initiative.

Atlanta residents celebrate the first community-owned resilience hub following Solar Energy Innovation Network’s (SEIN’s) Breaking Barriers project, led by Groundswell.

The Solar Energy Innovation Network (SEIN) Round 3 multi-stakeholder team, led by Salt Lake City’s Department of Sustainability, explored gaps to equitable solar in Salt Lake City’s Westside neighborhood.

The Innovation Network’s Innovation at SCALE initiative offers targeted technical and analytical support to empower communities and organizations to begin or progress their clean energy journey through insights developed in previous rounds of SEIN.

A new NREL tool helps states, cities, community organizations, and solar developers identify equitable solar energy deployment opportunities.

The Twin Cities Advancing Small Business Solar Equity team‘s SEIN Round 3 report, Advancing Small Business Solar Equity: Final Technical Insights Report (Lake Street Council website), details the team’s proposed ‘Solar Hub Network’ model to overcome the significant barriers for underserved Black, indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC)- and immigrant-owned small businesses to access rooftop solar energy.

Elevating equitable solar energy adoption was the topical focus of SEIN Round 3, in which multi-stakeholder teams explored various approaches to increase distributed on-site solar access in Black, indigenous, people of color (BIPOC) and low- and moderate-income communities.

Successes and lessons learned by a Solar Energy Innovation Network (SEIN) multi-stakeholder team brings solar to houses of worship led by Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC).