Community choice aggregation can accelerate local solar growth in cities and counties

When people buy a new home in a different city, they’re typically given the phone number of the investor-owned utility (IOU) that will serve them. They know they must call this one provider, supply payment information and set up service if they want the lights to turn on in their new home.

But in seven states, homeowners could instead have a menu of different local, green energy options to choose from instead of one IOU.

This localized energy initiative is called community choice aggregation or CCA (which media outlets abbreviate for brevity, although community choice energy advocate and coordinator of the California Alliance for Community Energy Al Weinrub said, “We never refer to it as ‘CCA,’ as the words are very powerful and the abbreviation is very mysterious.”)

CCAs are growing, especially in California. The California Community Choice Association (CalCCA) announced in November that CCAs in the state have signed long-term contracts with new renewable energy facilities totaling more than 2 GW.

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