The Regulatory Advocacy Hub or “the Hub” is Vote Solar’s virtual center designed to provide harmonized strategic and technical support to our regional teams. Launched in 2021, the Hub aims to tackle an often overlooked but crucial piece of the clean energy puzzle: how to shape a regulatory landscape that is both accessible and responsive to the needs of the people energy utilities are meant to serve.
Within Vote Solar, the Hub applies regulatory knowledge amassed over the last twenty years to ensure that key learnings, technical expertise, the best available resources, and innovative research are effectively and consistently deployed. The Hub increases Vote Solar’s overall effectiveness by providing targeted stakeholder education, robust information sharing, and state-of-the-art technical support to enhance campaign and regulatory intervention performance. Externally, the Hub is a place for communities, non-profits, and other organizations to learn about regulatory issues and access tools to mount their own interventions, helping to advance a broad and inclusive clean energy agenda before public utility commissions and legislatures across the country. The regulatory space has long been intentionally inaccessible to the people most impacted by harmful energy decisions, and the Hub expands procedural justice by supporting direct access to these venues.