Advancing solar adoption one community at a time

The Sustainable Jersey Solar Challenge

The Sustainable Jersey Solar Challenge is a competition between member communities to advance solar adoption through local outreach efforts.

The Challenge leverages the EnergySage Solar Marketplace, an online solar research and shopping platform, that was developed with the funding and support of the US Department of Energy. EnergySage helps residents to quickly gather competitive solar quotes from high quality solar providers and presents these quotes online for easy review and comparison.

By creating competition between communities, the program helps to motivate cities and towns to get creative about how they promote the program locally. EnergySage offers a host of solar marketing resources so that even communities without staff or volunteers knowledgeable about solar or even about marketing can generate tremendous participation and impact.

Is your community interested in developing a solar program with EnergySage directly or are you interested in learning about future Solar Challenges?

Participating Communities

These communities are participating in the first phase of this program that lasts from October 2016 through May 2017.

Sustainable Jersey Solar Challenge Performance

Total statistics for participating communities

Registrations

562

Contracts

Contracted kW

158.4

Contracts per
1000 households

Community Success Metrics

Individual participating community statistics

	Registrations	Contracts	Contracted kW
Hopewell	133	10	113.6
Verona	115
Maplewood	95	2	11.2
Hoboken	62	1	9.3
Highland Park	60	1	6.3
Woodbridge	56
Galloway	41	2	18.0
Total	562	16	158.4

For more information about solar economics and benefits in New Jersey, check out the New Jersey Solar Data Explorer

Is your community interested in developing a solar program with EnergySage directly or are you interested in learning about future Solar Challenges?