Community Solar LMI-PPA Grant Program

Program Description: This program provides funding to Community Solar Subscriber Organizations to offset costs associated with Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) enabling clean energy to be offered to Low-Income (LI) households at lower cost.

Program Purpose: Providing greater cost savings for the Community Solar Permanent Program for Low Income households.

Type of Program: Statewide Competitive

Program Application Deadline: 3:00 P.M. ET, Tuesday, December 23, 2025 (AOI’s 1 and 2)

Anticipated Program Budget: Approximately $17,000,000 from the Strategic Energy Investment Fund (SEIF) using Solar Alternative Compliance Payment (ACP) funding. Initial funding shall be $5,000,000 for AOI-1 and $12,000,000 for AOI-2. At MEA’s discretion, funding from other sources with varying restrictions may also be possible.

Program Documents:

FY26 Funding Opportunity Announcement (This will also be Attachment E to the grant document)
Application Worksheet FY26 (The filled in version will also be attachment G to the Grant Agreement)
MEA Grant Agreement General Provisions; the latest version is available on MEA's Incentives Page. (this will be Attachment A to the grant document)
FY26 Community Solar LMI-PPA Completion Report (This will be Attachment D to the Grant Agreement)
AOI-1 Application Checklist (may be modified before final use)
AOI-2 Application Checklist (may be modified before final use)
Program Manager Checklist (may be modified before final use)

For more information, contact MEA regarding the Community Solar LMI-PPA Grant Program by email at [email protected] or by phone at 410-537-4064 to speak with David Comis, the MEA program manager.

Other Community Solar Resources:

The Maryland Public Service Commission serves as the Program Manager for Maryland's Community Solar Pilot Program and permanent Community Solar Program. This webpage provides information for each project that has been provided solar capacity in the Pilot Program and permenant program. This information has been provided by the Subscriber Organizations and is updated at least quarterly. Items in red are updates from the last quarterly report.

Publicly available data is provided by Excel spreadsheet.

List of Community Solar Projects in MD with Project Details: Public Information 2024.02.04

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