What is Community Solar?
Community solar is a shared solar energy program that allows multiple individuals or organizations to subscribe to a central solar facility. By subscribing, participants receive credits on their electricity bills that reflect their share of the energy produced. This setup enables subscribers to benefit from clean, renewable solar energy without paying a large upfront cost, and without having to install solar panels on their own property, making solar accessible to more people including renters and those without suitable rooftop space.

Chugach's Community Solar Project
Chugach is preparing to launch Alaska’s first community solar program that will allow members to voluntarily subscribe and receive solar energy from the project. Chugach’s plan is for a 500-kilowatt (kW) AC, four-acre community solar project with about 1,080 panels to be built next to its Retherford Substation on E. 94th Avenue next to the railroad tracks, about a half mile south of the Dimond Center. Members may voluntarily subscribe to pay for 1 to 20 panels and have the energy from those panels credited to their bill. After a one-year minimum subscription, members may continue or end their subscription at any time.

The project is expected to start producing power in summer 2025. The cost of subscriptions will be announced after proposals are received and other costs are finalized.

Chugach will provide several months for members to enroll for community solar in advance of the start date. If there is more interest than panels available, a random drawing will occur to determine who receives subscriptions and who is placed on a waiting list.

To receive project updates and announcements of when enrollment begins, please fill in the interest form below.