There is a new report on the benefits of the ambitious 30 Million Solar Homes (30MSH) federal policy effort to power one in four U.S. households with rooftop and local community solar, with an emphasis to broadening access to distributed solar to marginalized and low-income communities.
The 30 Million Solar Homes initiative leverages existing federal programs and new initiatives to spark investment to power 30 million households, or one in four American homes, with rooftop and community solar.
The benefits for Ohio would be substantial, including:
- Supplying 5,700 megawatts of new solar capacity.
- The equivalent of 1,133,000 new solar homes, 763,000 in marginalized communities.
- Reducing electric bills by $2 billion over the first five years.
- Creating 66,000 good, new solar jobs.
- Eliminating 9.7 million metric tons of global warming pollution over the first five years.
- Investing $5.5 billion of new federal funds into local solar energy.
Your U.S. senator and representative or delegate can advocate for 30 Million Solar Homes’ policies. Share this Ohio Fact sheet with your representative. Share the report of the 30 Million Solar Homes Impact Study
Nationally, in the first five years of the program, the 30MSH plan would:
- Create 1.77 million new jobs
- Reduce electricity bills by $69 billion
- Eliminate CO2 emissions equivalent to closing 48 coal-burning power plants
- Power 20 million households in marginalized communities with local solar
In addition, the ongoing, ANNUAL benefits would include $30 billion in electricity bill savings, and more than three-quarters of total federal investment benefits marginalized communities, including low- and moderate-income and environmental justice communities.
The report is available, along with state and Congressional District fact sheets are available at 30millionsolarhomes.org. We encourage you to share this page with your networks.
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