States Set for Solar Cash Infusion Aim to Build Worker Pipeline

States set to receive slices of $7 billion to bring solar power to low-income communities are confronting the construction industry’s nationwide skilled labor shortage.

The Environmental Protection Agency in late April selected 60 applicants, many of them state energy departments, to deliver residential solar to disadvantaged populations. The money is expected to be delivered this summer, though states will have a planning period that extends farther out.

The Solar for All program, part of the EPA’s $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, is billed as an environmental justice measure to tackle climate change in communities excluded from the energy transition. ...