Solar America Cities
The 25 Solar America Cities partnerships represent the foundation of DOE’s Solar America Communities program.
Local governments and citizens across the country are taking action to make solar energy a more viable option for their communities. These forward-thinking cities and counties are using innovative approaches to remove market barriers to solar and encourage adoption of solar energy technologies at the local level.
In 2007 and 2008, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) designated 25 major U.S. cities as Solar America Cities and provided financial and technical assistance to help the cities develop comprehensive approaches to increasing solar energy use. Sixteen of these designees received additional Recovery Act funding in 2009 for special projects that tackle specific barriers to urban solar energy use. The unique federal-local partnerships have enabled DOE to identify barriers to solar energy use in diverse locations and at various stages of market development, and to collaboratively develop solutions to those barriers.
Click on a city in the map below, or click on a city name in the alphabetical listing to the left to visit the Web page of each original Solar America City.
