Frequently Asked Questions

Community solar allows renters, homeowners, and small businesses to go solar without installing anything on their roof. When you subscribe to a community solar project, you save money on your utility bills by receiving solar energy credits from a project on a roof elsewhere in the City. As a subscriber, you're not only saving money on energy bills — you are also helping your community and city take on the challenge of climate change with a clean, renewable energy project.

The project will be owned and operated by a partnership between UPROSE, a Sunset Park based climate justice organization and its developer partner Working Power. Households and small businesses are invited to sign up for more information about how they can participate in the project and start saving money on their Con Edison bills while supporting local clean energy.

The solar energy system will be installed on the roof of the Brooklyn Army Terminal, a dynamic industrial campus on the Sunset Park waterfront owned and managed by the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC). In November 2018, NYCEDC awarded a solar roof lease to a project team composed of local non-profits UPROSE and its partners.

Apart from bill discounts, the revenues UPROSE will receive from its ownership will help to fund a community resiliency fund that will be governed by community members subscribed to the program.