Local Solar – Feed-In Tariff Program

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Local Solar is Clean Energy Alliance's (CEA) feed-in tariff (FIT) program for smaller-scale renewable energy projects. Energy produced by the sites would be sold to CEA and sent to the grid for community use. This program is administered by CEA. CEA will approve a maximum of four projects totaling up to 2MW of solar generating capacity.

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Service details

Service type
Load increase
Eligible technologies
Other
Batteries
Competition frequency
Ongoing
Locational scope
Territory-wide
Seasonality
Year-round

Eligibility

Direct
Aggregated
Residential
This participation route is eligible.
This participation route may be eligible
This participation route is not eligible.
This participation route is eligible.
This participation route may be eligible
This participation route is not eligible.
Commercial & Industrial
This participation route is eligible.
This participation route may be eligible
This participation route is not eligible.
This participation route is eligible.
This participation route may be eligible
This participation route is not eligible.
Front-of-the-Meter
This participation route is eligible.
This participation route may be eligible
This participation route is not eligible.
This participation route is eligible.
This participation route may be eligible
This participation route is not eligible.

Have an intended minimum project size of 500kW (approximately 3 acres of ground and/or rooftop space), and a maximum project size of up to 1 MW, Be a California Energy Commission-certified renewable generating resource, Be a new build project, Be located within CEA's service territory, a CEA customer and able to connect to the SDG&E grid, Transfer renewable energy certificates to CEA, Deliver under a non-negotiable 20-year Power Purchase Agreement with a base price of $85/MWh

Key details

No bidding. Will be paid under a non-negotiable 20-year Power Purchase Agreement with a base price of $85/MWh. Projects with co-located battery storage (at least 0.5kW storage for 1kW of generating capacity) are eligible for a $15/MWh bonus during the first five years of delivery term.
Will be compensated for each MWh / kWh generated / discharged.
Seller shall deliver an invoice to Buyer within fifteen (15) days after the end of the prior monthly delivery period. Each Seller invoice shall include (a) records of metered data, including metering and transaction data sufficient to validate all invoiced amounts for the preceding month, including the Facility Energy produced by the Facility as read by the Facility Meter[, the amount of Charging Energy charged by the Storage Facility and the amount of Discharging Energy delivered from the Storage Facility, in each case, as read by the Storage Facility Meter] 28, the amount of Facility Energy in MWh delivered during the prior billing period, and the Contract Price applicable to such Product; and (b) be in a format reasonably specified by Buyer.
Listing last updated on
01 September 2025

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