Municipal Utility Collaborative
The Municipal Utility Collaborative (MUC) seeks to create or scale programs that expand affordable
community solar access to low-income and other underserved communities.
In partnership with the American Public Power Association APPA), NCSP’s MUC concentrates on the
following objectives:
- Program Design: Identify and implement best practices and lessons learned on
customer engagement and outreach, including pre-qualification of income status and navigating the
third-party support ecosystem (e.g. community solar subscription companies, developers, etc.)
- Financing: Demonstrate sustainable customer financing options, such as on-bill
financing and monthly subscription products as well as subsidy options for low income residents
- Service Integration: Develop models to integrate community solar with other
utility programs and technology offerings, for example with demand response, energy efficiency,
weatherization, electric vehicle charging, utility rate assistance programs or other low-income
programs
- Additional Customer Benefits: Assess and quantify supplementary benefits of
community solar. For example, resiliency attributes to both the subscriber and the utility through
the incorporation of battery energy storage systems (BESS) into community solar projects