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BY ADAM ATKINSON
North Country This Week
CANTON The village’s Sustainability Committee recently hosted a presentation for the public on community choice solar programs at their online Zoom meeting recently.
Jeff Domanski, community choice aggregation (community solar) specialist, of Hudson Valley Energy, talked about how such programs might fit with Canton’s overall sustainability goals at the April 6 meeting.
The village, like other local municipalities including the Town of Potsdam, is researching ways and companies to set up community choice aggregation to allow local residents to participate in what is essentially a buyers club for renewably generated electricity. Through the program, municipalities contract with companies which handle the administrative side of the buyer’s club on behalf of the town, managing bids and contracts for energy purchases and working with community solar suppliers and National Grid, a
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FINGER LAKES, N.Y., Feb. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Villages of Brockport and Lima entered into a tri-party agreement with Joule and Generate Capital to provide community solar to residents on an opt out basis. Part of Joule s Finger Lakes Community Choice program, the opt-out community solar program will be rolled out to 3,800+ households across the two upstate New York municipalities. Expected to launch this year, this program will be the first opt-out community solar program in the United States. Generate teamed up with 38 Degrees North to acquire from top developers the solar projects in the area that will provide residents 17 million kilowatt hours of solar power for 25 years. Joule, the program administrator, has been supporting the development of a community choice program in the Villages since early 2017, including the provision of public outreach and public education on the opportunities for both electricity supply and community sola
Joule s Clean Energy Programs Enable 31 New York State Communities to Bring Cleaner and Cheaper Energy to Residents, Promote Local Economies, Help Meet State Climate Goals
IN 2021, JOULE EXPECTS TO ROLL OUT COMMUNITY CHOICE AGGREGATION PROGRAMS AND OFFER COMMUNITY SOLAR TO ALMOST 250,000 HOUSEHOLDS IN 31 COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE STATE, INCLUDING THE LAUNCH OF A FIRST-OF-KIND COMMUNITY SOLAR PROGRAM THAT WILL CHANGE NEW YORK STATE S ENERGY LANDSCAPE.
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KATONAH, N.Y., Jan. 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ In 2020, Joule Assets, via Joule Community Power, launched three new community choice aggregation programs ( CCA or community choice ) to more than 100,000 utility account holders in twelve communities across New York State. This brings Joule s total to five CCAs operating in 20 NY municipalities. Nineteen of the twenty municipalities with electricity supply contracts negotiated through Joule have selected 100% renewable energy at