The October 4 deadline is rapidly approaching to apply for the Community Power Accelerator Prize – Round 2.  

The Community Power Accelerator Prize: Accessing Capital to Deploy Equitable Community Solar is a $10 million competition designed to fast-track the efforts of new, emerging, and expanding solar developers and co-developers. By participating in the prize, they’ll have opportunities to learn and grow their operations to support multiple successful community solar projects. Community solar developers or co-developers interested in expanding, while incorporating meaningful benefits into multiple community solar projects are eligible to compete and can sign up on the HeroX platform.  

Competitors can earn up to $400,000 each in prizes across three rounds of the competition. They’ll need to show notable progress in project pre-development activities and enable access to at least two of the five meaningful benefits of community solar identified by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Community Solar Partnership. These benefits include low- to moderate-income household access, greater household savings, resilience and grid benefits, community ownership, and equitable workforce development.  

Applications are due on October 4 at 5 p.m. ET. Learn more about the prize and the application process.