The Michigan Sunshot Initiative aims to transform the rooftop solar market by promoting solar technology and establishing best practices for permitting and interconnection. It is part of a national effort by the DOE to make solar energy cost-competitive by 2020 and improve U.S. energy security and economic competitiveness. The initiative requires collaboration among various stakeholders, including government, utilities, and solar companies, and focuses on addressing market barriers and reducing non-hardware costs.

1. Michigan SunShot Initiative
Rooftop Solar Challenge to Induce Market
Transformation

2. Solar America Cities
 DOE Program to promote solar
technology
 Ann Arbor 1 of 25 Solar Cities
 Clean Energy Coalition wrote Ann
Arbor Solar Cities solar plan in
2010

3. SunShot Initiative
 A national effort striving to
make solar energy cost
competitive by 2020.
 Re-establish American
technological leadership,
improve energy security,
and strengthen U.S.
economic competitiveness
in the global clean energy
race.
 Sub Programs:
Photovoltaics,
Concentrating Solar Power,
Systems Integration, and
Graph from energy.gov/sunshot
Market Transformation.

4. SunShot Initiative
Market Transformation
 Tackles twin challenges of reducing market
barriers and non-hardware costs or “Balance of
Systems” (BOS)
 Requires partnership between state and local
governments, utilities, solar companies and non-
profits. Photo: energy.gov/sunshot
 Must achieve measureable improvements.
Phase 1 Phase 2
 Awardees lay the policy and  DOE will facilitate among awardees
process framework for a strong solar to develop regional best practices for
market within their team. permitting and interconnection.
 Awardees develop best practices for  Awardees implement regional best
permitting and interconnection within practices within their respective
their team. states, and more broadly if possible.

5. Opportunity Overview
Phase 1 Action Areas
 Permitting and
interconnection processes
 Net metering and
interconnection standards
 Financing options
 Planning and zoning
Table 1: Market Evaluation Point Allocation

6. For more information, please contact:
Bonnie Bona
Clean Energy Coalition
Project Manager
bonnie@cec-mi.org
(734) 585-5720 ext 12