2024-2025 Regional Environmental Justice Community Scores Announced

Illinois Solar for All has announced the Regional Environmental Justice Scores for the Cook County, North West, North East, West Central, East Central, and Southern regions. To promote a proportional distribution of solar projects and funding to Environmental Justice Communities, the Regional Environmental Justice Score was added to the Project Selection Protocol to award prioritization points to projects in underserved Environmental Justice Communities when Project Selection is required. Project Selection is required when the total incentive value of eligible applications exceeds the available funding allocations or carveouts in any of the three sub-programs.

Explanation of Regional Environmental Justice Community Score

Each of the six regions receives a score based on past projects and corresponding potential location points (in some cases, no points will be received). The scores and points are calculated for each sub-program separately, and each score represents the percentage of all environmental justice community households located in that region divided by the percentage of all past years’ sub-program REC incentive values awarded in that region.

Points are assigned as follows:

• The region with the highest score will receive 2 points.
• Projects in the region with the second-highest score will receive 1 point.
• Projects in any region without a score, because they have received no RECs to date, will also receive 1 point.

Regional Environmental Justice Community Score Location Points: Program Year 7*

*These points are calculated using PY1-PY6 projects and should be used for PY7 (2024-2025) project selection.

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