Behind-the-Meter MAGIC:

Unlocking a Goldmine of Local Solar and Microgrid Projects

Join this 90-minute training to learn how to identify, jumpstart, and grow community-based solar, battery storage, and microgrid projects. Designed for local clean energy champions, this training session gives you the tools to launch and scale community-based clean energy and resilience projects.

Build financially viable projects even when federal tax credits end

Who Should Take This Training

Registration Fee

This targeted, skill-building session is designed for city, county, and tribal staff, as well as community and environmental justice advocates, NGO/CBO representatives, and others eager to lead clean energy projects. Join our training to learn how to identify and scope viable solar and battery storage/microgrid systems, and structure financing that maximizes project success.

  • $65 for representatives of city, county, or Tribal governments, NGOs, community-based organizations, and students

  • $85 for general training participants

In this 90-minute training, you will learn how to:

  • Readily identify viable solar energy and battery/microgrid sites in your community

  • Understand what “behind-the-meter” means and why it is critical to financial success of many smaller local projects

  • Be able to create a solar/battery storage project at an otherwise “no go” site

  • Understand the critical relationship between a site’s electric load and its available solar buildout capacity

  • Be able to stage the buildout of solar and battery/microgrid in phases to maximize project success

  • Understand the potential role of bond finance and pooled financing vehicles for multiple project funding

  • Use social solidarity enterprise business entities (cooperatives) to scale your solutions

  • Effectively involve the local community and environmental justice groups early in the process

  • The basics of modeling these projects using private sector and NREL Modeling Tools

CSPI’s newest training launches Tuesday, September 23 at 11:00am PT.

Designed to train hundreds of climate-focused leaders in just a few months, the first training in this fast-track program is now open for registration.

Learn from Experts Behind
Real-World Success

This training is led by the Center for Strategic Policy Innovation that delivered a groundbreaking Pilot Project in Lansing, Michigan in partnership with Arizona State University’s Laboratory for Energy And Power Solutions (LEAPS) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). It also builds on the nationally recognized NREL Clean Energy Modeling Tools training initiative, with dozens of program graduates.