Everybody wants to improve low-income households’ access to solar energy, Derek Chernow, western regional director for the CCSA, said. But he argues it’s hard to encourage low-income participation in projects that don’t exist, and that the current structure of community solar programs in California hasn’t encouraged developers to build community-scale projects.
“We know from past mistakes that it’s not the way to scale up, it’s not the way to leverage private investment, and it’s not the way to get to the clean energy goals that California has set for itself,” he said.
