The MI Solar for All program aims to:

• Reduce costs for low-income households.
  • The program will deliver a benefit equivalent to an average 20% reduction of household electric bill to participating low-income households.
• Increase solar access.
  • The program seeks to offer financing products and deployment options to increase low-income and disadvantaged households’ access to solar.
• Improve resiliency and grid benefits.
  • The program will make solar and energy storage investments to help keep the electricity flowing to low-income and disadvantaged households or the critical facilities that serve them, even during a grid outage.
• Improve solar workforce pipeline and jobs.
  • The program will make workforce training and development investments to support workforce pipeline for Michigan jobs that install, operate, and maintain MI Solar for All investments.
• Support community ownership.
  • MI Solar for All will help facilitate ownership models that support low-income households and communities to build equity in projects.

The program will benefit low-income residential households. The EPA Solar For All program defines “low-income individuals and households” for this program as having:

• Metropolitan Areas: incomes not more than 80% area median income (AMI) or 200% federal poverty level (FPL) (whichever is higher)
• Non-Metropolitan Areas: incomes not more than 80% AMI, 200% FPL, or 80% Statewide Non-Metropolitan Area AMI (whichever is highest).

Federal Poverty Level (FPL) is defined using the latest publicly available figures from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Area Median Income (AMI) is defined using the latest publicly available figures from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

Metropolitan Area and Non-Metropolitan Area are defined using the latest publicly available figures for county-level designations from the U.S. Office of Management and Budget.

Statewide Non-Metropolitan Area AMI is defined using the latest publicly available figures from the U.S. Department of the Treasury's CDFI Fund, with an adjustment for household size using HUD's Family Size Adjustment factor.

The EPA requires the Solar for All program to operate within a five-year period, during which all allocated funds must be utilized. 

The MI Solar for All team will provide various opportunities for engagement and feedback, including public meetings and requests for information.

More information will be available as these options are developed, so please sign up for email updates and check the MI Solar for All page for more information.