Community Solar Projects in the United States

This dataset lists community solar projects identified from various sources as of Spring 2018. It includes project attributes such as State, Service Territory, and System Capacity. The database is maintained by the Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

Use Cases

• Analyze the distribution of System Capacity across different States to identify regional trends in project scale.
• Map Service Territory coverage for utilities to assess market penetration of community solar.
• Identify projects associated with the Coalition For Community Solar Access (CCSA) tag for membership or partnership analysis.
• Cross-reference project locations with State and Utility tags for policy impact studies.

Strengths

• Curated and reviewed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).
• Includes multiple descriptive tags such as State, Service Territory, and System Capacity.
• Explicitly invites community input for corrections and additions to improve data quality.

Limitations

• Data is current only as of Spring 2018 and may be temporally stale.
• The list is acknowledged to be non-comprehensive and may contain errors or duplicates from source materials.
• Contains missing information represented by blank spaces in the data.

Provenance

Source

Department of Energy, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

Collection Method

Compiled from various sources including press releases; subject to review but may contain errors.

Time Range

Snapshot as of Spring 2018.

Freshness

The metadata was last updated in March 2026, but the underlying project data reflects a Spring 2018 snapshot.

Geography

United States (implied by State tags and Department of Energy provenance).