State officials announce major Solar for All award for Washington, pair it with state funds to expand rooftop and community solar

Gov. Jay Inslee and federal and state officials announced on a visit to Seattle Housing Authority's Yesler Terrace that Washington will receive a federal Solar for All award and will pair that money with state Climate Commitment Act funds to expand solar access for low- and moderate-income residents.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's regional administrator, Casey Sixkiller, said the national Solar for All competition totals $7 billion and "includes a $150,000,000 to the state of Washington," and described the program as intended to deploy residential solar to hundreds of thousands of households and reduce significant amounts of carbon emissions. "It will deliver residential solar projects to 900,000 households nationwide and reduce 30,000,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions from over 4 gigawatts of clean energy," Sixkiller…