With electricity demand on the rise, has your community taken action to expand opportunities for solar and unlock the brightest opportunity in energy today? Solar creates jobs, provides electricity cost stabilization, and ensures a reliable and affordable power supply for businesses and residents.

Learn about SolSmart, a free program designed for local governments to streamline solar permitting processes, demonstrate openness to new investment, and take advantage of our most abundant resource: the sun. The SolSmart technical assistance team offers free, customized support to help your community identify the policies and programs that can enable solar opportunities, reduce costs, and increase safety and reliability.

Speakers include:

• Deb Perry, Clean Energy Program Director, ICMA
• Chad Laurent, Principal, Cadmus Group
• Kelly Aves, Senior Program Specialist, Sustainability, National League of Cities (NLC)
• Sarah Yeager, Senior Program Manager – Clean Energy, ICMA