CleanChoice Energy Receives $2.5 Million Cooperative Award by U.S. Department of Energy SunShot Initiative For Community Solar

This press release has been updated from Ethical Electric to CleanChoice Energy to reflect our new brand.

WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 14, 2016 — CleanChoice Energy, a renewable energy company providing 100 percent clean electricity to retail power customers, has received a $1.25 million cooperative award from the U.S. Department of Energy SunShot Initiative. A roughly 50 percent cost share brings the total value of the award to more than $2.5 million. With the award, the company will build a technology platform to take community solar to scale, increasing the availability and cost effectiveness of solar development.

CleanChoice Energy will leverage its market position as a retail energy provider offering only 100 percent renewable energy to reduce community solar soft costs at least 75 percent by:

• Lowering customer acquisition costs via data-driven propensity modeling and micro-targeting

• Aggregating demand through new and existing customer prospecting

Community solar represents one of the largest opportunities to advance renewable energy development in the United States, making solar power possible for millions of residents who cannot choose rooftop installation. The cost of acquiring residential solar customers has been a persistent challenge to lowering the cost of community solar development. CleanChoice Energy’s platform will be leveraged by both developers and investors to bring community solar to the renewable energy marketplace.

"Community solar has the potential to expand access to solar energy in the U.S. market to potentially all Americans,” said Tom Matzzie, Founder and CEO of CleanChoice Energy. “CleanChoice Energy’s goal is to use our proven expertise to bring community solar to hundreds of thousands of Americans who are not able to access it today.”

CleanChoice Energy’s mission is making 100 percent renewable energy available to all. Building on its existing retail platform, the company will make community solar cost effective and accessible to all residential customers.

The community solar offerings will be launched under the new name of CleanChoice Energy.

About CleanChoice Energy

CleanChoice Energy is a leading renewable energy company empowering residential and commercial customers to reduce emissions and support clean energy through 100% renewable electricity. CleanChoice Energy’s mission is to make clean energy accessible for everybody. CleanChoice Energy supplies only clean renewable energy to customers, operating in 8 states and the District of Columbia, bringing cleaner air closer to home. The company is a founding member of the Coalition for Community Solar Access, recently passed $1 million in total corporate donations to environmental and social impact organizations, and has been awarded the highest level of B Corp certification. For more information or to become a customer, visit www.cleanchoiceenergy.com.

About the SunShot Initiative

The U.S. Department of Energy SunShot Initiative is a collaborative national effort that aggressively drives innovation to make solar energy fully cost-competitive with traditional energy sources before the end of the decade. Through SunShot, the Energy Department supports efforts by private companies, universities, and national laboratories to drive down the cost of solar electricity to $0.06 per kilowatt-hour.

Contact: press@cleanchoiceenergy.com