Finding Pennsylvania's Solar Future (Final Technical Report)
Finding Pennsylvania’s Solar Future (Project) was a project of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Energy Program’s Office (EPO) with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office. DEP brought together a project team that included Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future (PennFuture), the Vermont Energy Investment Corporation (VEIC), and Pennsylvania-based solar subject matter experts (“Facilitators”) Sharon Pillar, Dr. Jeffrey Brownson, Ron Celentano, and Maureen Mulligan. The goals of the project were to explore whether Pennsylvania has sufficient technical and economic potential to increase in-state solar generation to provide 10 percent of its electricity consumption by 2030 and to identify potential pathways to achieve this target, as well as to explore the associated economic, environmental, and health impacts of achieving the goal. The project had four essential activities: stakeholder engagement, scenario modeling and analysis, strategy development, and dissemination and outreach.