The San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) solar project, developed and owned by Main Street Power Company, was recognized with an honorable mention in the inaugural Novogradac Journal of Tax Credits’ Renewable Energy Power Awards at the Financing Renewable Energy Conference in San Francisco, CA.
Photo courtesy of Main Street Solar
The SDUSD solar project received the honorable mention in the “Overcoming Obstacles” category as an example of how Main Street Power made use of innovative tax credit solutions to finance the 31-site solar project.
The SDUSD project involved installing solar PV systems with an aggregate generation capacity of 2.873 MW of AC, mounted on more than 100 rooftops across 31 sites in San Diego. The solar arrays will offset approximately 20 to 40% of each building’s electricity usage. All 31 of the sites used the Section 1603 grant program and 25 also used new markets tax credit financing. One of the most significant achievements of this project was the partnership Main Street Power initiated with California’s Division of State Architects to create a statewide design criteria and approval process for all future rooftop solar projects on public K-12 sites.
A solar panel is installed on the roof of a San Diego High School building in San Diego, Calif., one of 100 rooftops on which solar energy systems were installed as part of the San Diego Unified School District project. Photo courtesy of Main Street Power.