Community Renewable Energy Deployment Projects

The selected DOE Community Renewable Energy Deployment (CommRE) projects receive technical assistance from DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory in the areas of concepts, best practices, planning, financial approaches, and policy guidance to help achieve specific goals. More than $20.5 million in total Recovery Act funding will be leveraged with approximately $167 million in local government and private industry funding to complete the following projects.

• City of Montpelier, Montpelier, Vermont
• Forest County Potawatomi Community, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Haxtun Wind, Phillips County, Colorado
• Sacramento Municipal Utility District, Sacramento, California
• University of California at Davis, Davis, California

Read the CommRE fact sheet. Get information on similar community-wide projects such as California's Renewable-Based Energy Secure Communities (RESCO) program.

Goals

The goals of the CommRE projects include:

• Improve knowledge and promote acceleration of market adoption of renewable energy technologies including solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal systems
• Support and enable EERE's deployment goals for multiple renewable energy resources and technologies that will create jobs and stimulate economic growth
• Establish successful renewable energy technology deployment examples that can be replicated by other communities
• Support communities with existing renewable energy technology plans that are ready to move into implementation
• Provide enough clean, renewable energy to displace the emissions of approximately 10,000 homes.

Contact

For more information on the CommRE projects, contact:

Jason Randall
U.S. Department of Energy
1617 Cole Boulevard
Golden, Colorado, 80401
720-356-1609